The 2022 MacKay History Lecture - Old Beginnings: The Scene of Decolonisation
This lecture, presented by Professor Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will examine the foundational Bandung Conference which took place in Indonesia in 1955 and its legacies.
Priyamvada Gopal is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of English. Her published work includes Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence (Routledge, 2005), After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies (Special issue of New Formations co-edited with Neil Lazarus) , The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration (Oxford University Press, 2009) and, most recently, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Hindu, Outlook India, India Today, The Independent, The New Statesman, The Guardian and The Nation (USA). Professor Gopal contributes occasionally to the BBC’s Start the Week and Newsnight as well as programmes on NDTV-India, Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Professor Gopal’s presentation will examine the foundational Bandung Conference which took place in Indonesia in 1955 and its legacies.
The annual MacKay Lecture Series is funded by the generous endowment of Mrs. Gladys MacKay in appreciation of the education her husband, Reverend Malcolm Ross MacKay (B.A., 1927), received in the liberal arts at Dalhousie University
Time
Location
Room 127, Goldberg Computer Science Building, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax
Cost
Free
Additional Information
Please RSVP for this event at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mackay-history-lecture-tickets-451697408107
Contact
Dr. Ajay Parasram
Departments of History and International Development Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University
parasram@dal.ca