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The Department of English Presents "Development and Underdevelopment in the Global South: Histories, Forms, Alternatives"听on April 5th, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Center for British and Irish Studies听(Norlin M549)

9:30-10:00听听 Light breakfast refreshments

10:00-11:00 听听 听Duncan Yoon, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School, New York University: 听鈥淎frica, China, and the Global South Novel: In Koli Jean Bofane鈥檚 Congo, Inc.鈥澨Respondent: Robert Wyrod, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies

11:00-12:00 听听 听Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American and American Studies, University of New Mexico: "The Anti-Development Alternative: Resource Extraction and Resistance in the Navajo Nation鈥澨Respondent: Clint Carroll, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies

12:00-2:00 听听 听Catered lunch听(Please RSVP to) RSVP by March 15th

2:00-3:00 听听 听Brian Larkin, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College: 鈥淭he Political Aesthetics of Infrastructures鈥澨Respondent: Janice Ho, Associate Professor of English

3:00-4:00 听听 听Mar铆a Josefina Salda帽a-Portillo, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University: 鈥淲hat is the Decolonial? Who Speaks for the Dispossessed? Roma and the Settler Colonial Paradigm.鈥澨Respondent: John-Michael Rivera, Associate Professor of English

4:00-5:00 听听 听Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: "Running out of (Narrative) Options: Conquering the Right to Development鈥Respondent: Nan Goodman, Professor of English

Sponsored by the Departments of English, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies, the Center of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center of Western Civilization.


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