IRN seminars
Next IRNPPC seminar (online)
Friday May 3rd, 2024, Professor James Procter will hold a session devoted to the launch of his book Scripting Empire. Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press, 2024), in discussion with Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University). You can find the introduction here.
10AM (New York) – 3PM (London) – 4PM (Paris and Johannesburg) – 7:30PM (Calcutta)
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/95125894754?pwd=bHNkd2htQ0JidElheGpiZytiNkVBQT09
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Upcoming IRNPPC conferences
International Conference: ‘Law and Print in Postcolonial Contexts”, July 5-6 2024
The University of Chicago Center in Paris will host a two-day international conference of our network, organized by Pr. Laetitia Zecchini, on “Law and Print in Postcolonial Contexts: Censorship, Copyright and Piracy“.
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 full list of participants here, and find the concept note here. The final programme will be online soon.
Recent news of IRN members & affiliates
Archives: An auction of the personal library of Senegal’s ex-president and poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, scheduled for April 16, has been suspended at the request of the State of Senegal to negotiate the acquisition of the entire library, as reported by Claire Riffard, a member of our network. The Groupe de Recherche International Léopold Sédar Senghor (ITEM, ENS, CNRS – Université Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar) has published an appeal, available here, to prevent the books from being dispersed.
Digitalization: all issues of Études Littéraires Africaines (ELA) are now available online, from issue 1 (1996) to issue 55 (2023).
Conference: SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), “Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access”, University of Reading (Berkshire, UK), 1-5 July 2024, with interventions by IRNPPC members Abhijit Gupta, “Indologists among the Epics: H.H. Wilson and Charles Wilkins” (July, 1) and Suchismita Ghosh, “Transnational Translations: Knowledge building and Publishing in Colonial Calcutta” (July 5). To view the program, please click here. If you have any questions, please contact Asha Roger: a.rogers.1@bham.ac.uk.
Book Launch: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran, in conversation with Khwezi Mkhize and Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Duke University (Durham), April 26. More information on the book here.
Seminar series: WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research), “Breathing In: Air and Atmosphere”, organized by Isabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall and Megan Vaughan, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Upcoming session: Euclides Goncalves, “Revisiting the Dead Archive through Air and Atmospheres” (May 6) and Awadhendra Sharan, “(Re)Configuring Atmospheres: Design, Technology and the Quest for ‘Pure Air’ in Colonial India” (May 20).
Podcast: Ada Ackerman-Millot took part in the podcast series “La recherche à l’œuvre”, from the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), for an episode entitled “Une bibliothèque pas comme les autres” (Ep. 1), available here.
Call for paper: Handbook of Humanities Podcasting (Palgrave MacMillan), edited by Kim Adams, Saronik Bosu, Beth Kramer and Milan Terlunen. For any question, please contact: bek212@gmail.com.
Recent publications of members & affiliates
ARMSTRONG, Isobel, MCDONAGH, Josephine, “Introduction to Laura Marcus, Rhythm: The Measure of the Modern”, in Textual Practice, Volume 38, Issue 3, ‘Laura Marcus: Rhythm. Cinema. Modernism. Psychoanalysis. Autobiography’, 2024.
GARNIER, Xavier, LEROUX, Pierre, translation from English (Zimbabwe) to French of: MARECHERA, Dambudzo, Cimetière de l’esprit, Le-Palais-sur-Vienne, Éditions project’îles, coll. “Poésie Schayinr”, 2024.
DASGUPTA, Supurna, translation from Hindi to English of: GILL, Gagan, “एक दिन लौटेगी लड़की – Someday, the Girl Will Return” (poem) [online], DoubleSpeak Magazine, 2024.
LEPERLIER, Tristan, ““L’intelligence qu’on assassine”: Endangered Intellectual as a Contested Category During the Algerian Civil War”, in DAKHLI, Leyla, LABORIER, Pascale, WOLFF, Frank (eds.), Academics in a Century of Displacement. The Global History and Politics of Protecting Endangered Scholars, Berlin, Springer, 2024.
MAJUMDAR, Rochona, “Calcutta 71: Critical Cinephilia and Mrinal Sen” [online], in Modernism Modernity, Volume 8, Cycle 3, “Global South Cinephilias” (eds. Rielle Navitski), 2024.
REZA, Alexandra, Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the end of Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024.
SINGH, Akansha, “Between modernity and modernism: Reading affect in Muktibodh’s translated poetry”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 60, issue 1, 2024, pp. 1–16.
ZECCHINI, Laetitia (introduction and translation, from English to French), MANCEAU, Simone, CLARO, VITALYOS, Dominique (translation) of Karthika NAÏR’ Until the Lions, Echoes from the Mahabharata, Le cantique des lionnes, Paris, Le Nouvel Attila, 2024.
Other publications and news
VANDERTOP, Caitlin, “(Dis)inheriting Stevenson: Inheritance Crisis, Postcolonial Periodization, and Literary Property in the Pacific”, in DE MEDEIROS, Paulo, PONZANESI, Sandra (eds.), Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024, p. 173-187.
PhD Thesis Defense of Flora Losch, “Technopolitiques post-coloniales. Radiotélévisions, archives audiovisuelles et retour du passé en Afrique (XXe-XXIe siècles)”, Centre Alexandre Koyré (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), April 29.
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