IRNPPC event: International Conference
July 5-6 2024, International Conference: ‘Law and Print in Postcolonial Contexts”, University of Chicago Center in Paris
This conference addresses the relationship between print and legislation, censorship and copyright in postcolonial contexts. It aims to explore the role of colonial and postcolonial institutions, of the state and other gate-keepers in the regulation of print; the forms and practices of cultural regulation and censorship particular to certain postcolonial contexts; as well as the many alternative, informal or interstitial publishing networks, spaces and practices operating outside official (or monitored) circuits. Please find the final program here and the concept note here.
Next IRNPPC seminar
Friday September 20th 2024 (10AM, NYC time), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay will hold a session devoted to the launch of her book Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton University Press, 2024). You can find the introduction online here. The Zoom link to follow the session is here.
Recent publications of IRNPPC members & affiliates
RIFFARD, Claire, « L’« utopie concrète » de l’Université des mutants à Gorée (Sénégal) – 1979-2005. Archives d’une création par un réseau intellectuel international », Continents manuscrits [Online], n° 22, 2024.
ZECCHINI, Laetitia, “’When My Own Writing is My Enemy’: Notes on Perumal Murugan and an Interview”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], n° 31, 2023 (online since June 2024).
Other publications and news
BISHOP, Elizabeth, “A Postcard from the World of Print: Algeria’s Place in the Digital Humanities”, The Digital Orientalist [online], May 14, 2024.
CABALION, Joël, JUGAND, Julien, “Bhim Geet and the Ambedkarite Movement: The Genesis of a Cultural Field of Protest”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], n° 31, 2023 (online since June 2024).
ROACH, Rebecca, “Generative Transcription: The Interview in Post-World War 2 Anglophone African Literary Culture”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing [online], May 2024, p. 1–15.
SIDDIQUE, Asheesh Kapur, The Archive of Empire. Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World, New Haven, Yale University Press (forthcoming, August 2024).
Call for papers: “Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis”, 24th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online Conference, January 18th and 19th, 2025.
Please submit 250-300-word abstracts along with 150-word bio-note by September 1, 2024, via the portal on the South Asian Literary Association’s webpage. More information here. Contact: salaconf2025@gmail.com.
IRNPPC website : You can consult our new section on digitalized archives here (work in progress). We welcome any suggestions to complete the section.
Albert Constant-Piot, the editor of these newsletters and the network’s web administrator, has completed his contract with our IRN. He would like to tell you how much he has enjoyed working here, and how his curiosity has been heightened by all this research in the field of postcolonial print culture!