Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, featuring three flashtalks:

Neil Safier (History, Brown), “The Colonial Encyclopedia”

Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard), “Contagion and the Collections at Harvard”

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (English, Yale), "Required Reading"

Followed by “choose your own breakout rooms.”

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Presenting: É Maluqueira!: Thinking Through Madness in the Age of Neoliberalization in Post-War Angola

Discussant: Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University)

Selina Makana is an Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching focus on African women’s social history, gender and militarism, transnational feminisms, and African diaspora studies. Her current monograph uses oral interviews with former women combatants and archival records to probe the relationship between gender...

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Title: Releasing the Soul: Decolonial Approaches to Gender, Catholicism, & Property in Vietnamese Histories

Speaker: Nhung Tuyet Tran, University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, September 30, 2021
Time: 3:30-5:00PM
Location: Zoom Webinar, click here to register.