Conference 2
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial
Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives
7-8 February 2025, Calcutta
IRNPPC Kolkata Conference Poster
This conference of the International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures (IRNPPC), co-funded by a UChicago Provost’s Global Faculty Award 2025, investigates the role of print in anti-colonial resistance and de-colonial thought in the context of the Cold War. The conference brings together an international group of scholars of print culture from diverse disciplines, who work on literatures of different regions and in diverse languages, at a two-day conference in Kolkata, hosted by two partner institutions of the IRNPPC: the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. Find the conference note and program schedule here.
Conference 1
Law and Print in Postcolonial Contexts: Censorship, Copyright and Piracy
A moment at the conference, July 6, 2024.
Organized by Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS) at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, July 5-6, 2024.
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.
Confirmed speakers:
Tanya Agathocleus (Hunter College) – Elara Bertho (CNRS) – Supurna Dasgupta (UChicago) – Claire Ducournau (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier – Shrutakirti Dutta (UChicago) – Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University) – Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) – Elisabeth Holt (Bard Collegue) – Paulo Horta (NYU Abu Dhabi) – Claire Joubert (Université Paris 8) – Sandra Ataíde Lobo (CHAM – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) – Adelaide Viera Machado (CHAM – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) – Josephine McDonagh (UChicago) – Mantra Mukim (CYU Paris) – Kaneesha Parsard (UChicago) – James Procter (Newcastle University) – Zahia Rahmani (INHA, Paris) – Asha Rogers (Birmingham) – Sami Rustom (Fehras Publishing Practices) – Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) – Robert JC Young (NYU) – Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS).