Composite Calendar
This is a composite calendar page template pulling in feeds from events calendars in department and research centre sites. It is purely used as a tool to collect the event details before filtering through to a publicly-visible calendar filter page template. To remove or add a feed to this composite calendar, please contact the IT Services Web Team (webteam at warwick dot ac dot uk).
Sonya is a retired Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, whose research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her visit is being jointly supported by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC).
This will be an in-person event and delivered in English. All are welcome, and there will be light refreshments served afterwards. Please don't hesitate to write to me (Malvika.Nair@warwick.ac.uk) for more information.
"My Name Penned as Coolie: Indenture Testimonios as Archipelagic Memory", a lecture by Professor Sonya Surabhi Gupta
Location: OC0.05
In her lecture, Sonya takes up three first-hand accounts of slavery and indentured servitude from the Caribbean, the first being Biografía de un cimarrón (1966; Biography of a Runaway Slave, 1994), the life-story of a 106-year-old former slave from Cuba, Esteban Montejo, as narrated to and compiled by the ethnologist Miguel Barnet. The second text is Damra Phag Bahar (1916; I Even Regret the Night: Holi Songs of Demerara, 2019), by Lalbihari Sharma, and lastly Munshi Rahman Khan's Jeevan Prakash: Autobiography of an Indian Indentured Labourer: Munshi Rahman Khan (1874-1972) (2005). Sonya will read these slave and indenture accounts as testimonios and as assemblages of 'archipelagic memory' drawing from the work of Caribbean intellectuals who mobilised the archipelago as a decolonial analytical framework.
Sonya is a retired Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, whose research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her visit is being jointly supported by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC).
This will be an in-person event and delivered in English. All are welcome, and there will be light refreshments served afterwards. Please don't hesitate to write to me (Malvika.Nair@warwick.ac.uk) for more information.