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Faculty Coordinatator, Akhil Gupta of Cultural and Social Anthropology

2004-2005 Workshops

Interrogating Modernity & Postcoloniality

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Description

The "Interrogating Modernity and Postcoloniality" workshop intends to provide a space for those faculty and graduate students who wish to study contemporary issues on modernity and postcoloniality outside the limited number of classroom opportunities that currently exist at Stanford. Although many of our participants study the South Asia region, our scope of inquiry extends to other regions of the world, including Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In 2004-2005, we plan to focus our study on particular fields within the larger topic of modernity and postcoloniality, including the urban experience, diaspora and transnationalism, and community and the state. From our combination of graduate student presentations, readings from contemporary scholarship, and invited guests from around the country and the world, the workshop has been in the last two years, and will continue to be, a vital part of graduate student scholarship and of friuitful and productive interaction between graduate students and faculty with shared and intersecting fields of interest.