Postcolonial Colloquium
The Postcolonial Colloquium is organized by graduate students of the Department of English at Princeton University as a forum for the study of the problem of postcolonialism. During the academic year, we host talks and discussions that reflect on the different kinds of subjects and forms of subjection that can be called postcolonial today.
An important function of the colloquium is to serve as a venue within the department for conversations about difference, especially racial and ethnic difference. We also seek to provide a space for conversations about theory and method, with a particular emphasis on the intellectual legacies of anti-colonial discourse and postcolonial studies.
The colloquium’s theme for 2017–2018 is the relationship between subjectivity and technology.
Upcoming Events
Claire Hong is a poet and agricultural worker whose daily life and writing practice involve researching and searching for cross-cultural, interspecies, and intergenerational relationships that have formed and form outside of, or despite, imperialism. Dedicated to traditional foodways, land stewardship, and multigenerational…
Past Events
this event is a provocation, a loose polemic, that probes into the necessity & place of politics in aesthetics. what forms rise to the occasion of narrating our ongoing post/colonial present? what kind of archives might we invoke & why? Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s novels, Stubborn Archivist & there are more…
Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative works mourn this violent past, even though melancholic grief is a crucial component of the literary response to it. Building on…
This event has been canceled.
Poetic Archival Interventions and a Case for Liminal Studies: Writing from the Invisible Colony of the United States Virgin Islands
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
This event is co-sponsored with the Americanist and 20th C. Colloquia.
Disaffected: A Colonial Genealogy of a Political Emotion
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Temporal Pulsations: Tishan Hsu in New York and Shanghai
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Mobility and Coloniality: The Politics of Movement and the Mobile Commons
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
On Postcolonial Tragedy: Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts
Techne, Technique, Technology
- Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Department of History, University of Havana, Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor, Macmillan Center, Yale University
- and Rahul Mukherjee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.