{"id":84,"date":"2023-05-30T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:40:48","slug":"seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/index.php\/events\/seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IRN organizes a bi-monthly virtual seminar, open to all.<\/p>\n

UPCOMING SEMINARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The virtual book launch of Leslie James’s book The Moving Word<\/em><\/a> will take place on Friday, 1st May 2026 at 9AM CT | 10AM ET | 3PM London | 4PM Johannesburg | 7.30PM India<\/strong>. More details about the talk can be found here<\/a>. Please join us on zoom<\/a> for the launch.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Join us on Friday, 12th June at 9AM CT | 10AM ET | 3PM London | 4PM Johannesburg | 7.30PM India <\/strong>for a discussion of Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press <\/i><\/a>with Isabel Hofmeyr and Abhijit Gupta. More details about the event can be found here<\/a>. Zoom link to follow.<\/p>\n

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PAST SEMINARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The virtual book-launch of African Literature in Transition: Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960<\/em><\/a>, edited by Karin Barber and Stephanie Newell, took place on Friday, 13th March 2026 at 9AM Central Time | 10AM Eastern Time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Friday, October 3rd 2025<\/strong> ((9AM CST, 7.30PM IST, 2PM GMT<\/strong>)) Hana Morgenstern<\/a> (University of Cambridge) talked about journal as method, as part of \u2018Revolutionary Papers\u2019<\/a>, the international research collaboration exploring the impact of 20th century anti-colonial and postcolonial periodicals which she co-directs.<\/p>\n

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Friday, March 7th <\/sup>2025 (9AM CST, 8.30PM IST, 3PM GMT<\/strong>) Hayley Toth spoke 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.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Friday, February 21, 2025, at 9AM CT (8.30PM IST | 3PM GMT)\u00a0<\/strong>Aakriti Mandhwani\u2019s discussed her new book Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India <\/a><\/em>(UMass Press, 2024). The book explores examines the world of \u201cmiddlebrow\u201d commercial publishing and practices of reading of North Indian middle-classes in the 1950s and 60s.\u00a0<\/span>You can find\u00a0the introduction online here<\/a>. Join us on zoom<\/a>. Find more details about this event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Friday September 20th 2024 (10AM, NYC time)<\/strong>, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay<\/strong> held a session devoted to the launch of her book Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire<\/i><\/a> (Princeton University Press, 2024).<\/p>\n

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Friday May 3rd 2024 (10AM, NYC time)<\/strong>, James Procter<\/strong> held a session devoted to the launch of his book Scripting Empire. Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2024). Here you can find the introduction <\/a>of the book.<\/p>\n

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Friday March 22nd 2024<\/strong>, the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire<\/strong> presented its research projects and publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Friday December 1st 2023<\/strong>, at 10 AM EST, Professor Francesca Orsini <\/strong>(University of London) talked about her latest book, East of Delhi. Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2023).<\/p>\n

\"The-Bloomsbury-Handbook-of-Postcolonial-Print-CulturesFriday September 22nd 2023<\/strong>, at 10 AM EST, Professor Stephanie Newell <\/strong>(Yale) chaired the virtual book launch of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures<\/em><\/a> edited by Toral Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Jack Webb.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Friday June 16th 2023<\/strong>, at 10 AM EST, Sonal Khullar<\/strong> (UPenn) presented her new edited volume Old Stacks, New Leaves:\u00a0 The Arts of the Books in So<\/em>uth Asia<\/em><\/a>, discussed by Toral Gajarawala (NYU)<\/p>\n

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Friday March 24th 2023<\/strong>, at 10 AM EST, Isabel Hofmeyr<\/strong> (U. Witwatersrand) presented her recent book Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House<\/a><\/em>, discussed by Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) and Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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