NPRG Term card (Sem 2, 20/21) PDF 13Kb
NPRG Term card (Sem 2, 20/21)
Past events
NPRG Seminar Series: Dr Emanuelle Santos
- Venue: 1.48 Barbara Strang Teaching Centre (BSTC.1.48), Newcastle University
- Start: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:00:00 GMT
The NPRG Seminar Series returns in 2020 with visiting speaker Dr Emanuelle Santos of the University of Birmingham.
Dr Emanuelle Santos is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, where she is coordinator of the Portugese Studies Programme there. With degrees from the University of São Paulo and University of Warwick, her research focuses on the intersections between the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, postcolonial studies, and theories of world literature, drawing attention to the global-local dialectics in epistemology and literary and critical theory. Her work also addresses representations of race, gender and sexuality, memory studies, world-systems theory, and decolonial critique especially with regards to structures of inequality, oppression and hegemony.
Dr Santos will join Dr Neelam Srivastava (English) and Dr Michael Tsang (Modern Languages) at a roundtable titled 'Peripheral Postcolonialities', to be held at 1.48 Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, Newcastle University, at 3pm on 19 February 2020. The roundtable will address the problematic of peripherality in postcolonial studies with their research on the Portugese-speaking world, Italian colonialism, and Hong Kong’s neo-colonialism. In doing so, the roundtable will not only critically reassess the effectiveness of the current theories and models in postcolonial studies on deliberating the postcolonial lived experience (postcoloniality), but also asks how the ecology of the postcolonial field might have helped exacerbate the situation of existing peripheries or even produce new ones, and what new conceptualisations and tools are needed. At a time when postcolonial studies is constantly pronounced irrelevant and antiquated, and on the occasion of the relaunch of Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group, this event reimagines peripherality as a key epistemological term of resistance, in the sense of examining both postcolonial experience and the postcolonial discipline itself.
ALL WELCOME
This roundtable is co-sponsored by the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group, the School of Modern Languages, and the Instituto Camões at Newcastle University.
