The IRN organizes a bi-monthly virtual seminar, open to all.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Friday, March 7th 2025 (9AM CST, 8.30PM IST, 3PM GMT) Hayley Toth will talk about her archival research at the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection in Chicago, where she explored the print activities and cultural logic of an explicitly political organisation, the National Alliance of Black Feminists that was officially founded in Chicago in 1976. More details about this talk can be found here.
Friday, February 21, 2025, at 9AM CT (8.30PM IST | 3PM GMT) Aakriti Mandhwani’s will discuss her new book Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (UMass Press, 2024). The book explores examines the world of “middlebrow” commercial publishing and practices of reading of North Indian middle-classes in the 1950s and 60s. You can find the introduction online here. Join us on zoom. Find more details about this event here.
PAST SEMINARS
Friday September 20th 2024 (10AM, NYC time), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay held a session devoted to the launch of her book Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Friday May 3rd 2024 (10AM, NYC time), James Procter held a session devoted to the launch of his book Scripting Empire. Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press, 2024). Here you can find the introduction of the book.
Friday March 22nd 2024, the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire presented its research projects and publications.
Friday December 1st 2023, at 10 AM EST, Professor Francesca Orsini (University of London) talked about her latest book, East of Delhi. Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Friday September 22nd 2023, at 10 AM EST, Professor Stephanie Newell (Yale) chaired the virtual book launch of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures edited by Toral Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Jack Webb.
Friday June 16th 2023, at 10 AM EST, Sonal Khullar (UPenn) presented her new edited volume Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Books in South Asia, discussed by Toral Gajarawala (NYU)
Friday March 24th 2023, at 10 AM EST, Isabel Hofmeyr (U. Witwatersrand) presented her recent book Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House, discussed by Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) and Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS)