We have hosted a wide range of events ranging from our Annual International Lectures to conferences to community days in conjunction with local schools and museums. Past speakers have included Prof. Ato Quayson, Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Helen Tiffin, Prof. Vijay Mishra, Professor Catherine Hall and Professor Dane Kennedy.
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The talk argues that in approaching modern Italian culture we need always to take account of the traces left by past instances of mobility. It looks briefly at the course of Italian expansionism both immediately before and during the twenty years (1922-43) in which the Fascist regime was in power in Italy.
Professor Stefan Helgesson will deliver the annual lecture titled 'Literature and Decolonization': Versions of Autonomy'.
The symposium saw 9 panels, more than 25 speakers with guest speakers: Prof John McLeod (Leeds); Dr Amy Rushton (Nottingham Trent University); Dr Jason Allen-Paisant (Leeds); Dr Hannah Boast (Birmingham); Dr Jason Arday (Roehampton); Dr Veronica Barnsley (Sheffield); and Dr Jeremy Poynting (Peepal Tree Press, Leeds).
After Empire? was a conference held in December 2018 which facilitated a discussion over race, migration, Empire and British identity fifty years after Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.
Professor Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) will be delivering a masterclass for postgraduate students and ECRs on the topic, 'How to Read for Oil'.
For the 2018 Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Annual International Lecture, Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) will be delivering a talk on 'Reading for the Planet: Environmental Crisis and World Literature'. This event is co-hosted by the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the Centre for World Literatures, and the Leeds Environmental Humanities Research Group.
At a time when new dynamics are emerging around the issues of justice (transitional, reparative, etc.), mourning and commemoration in Africa and its diaspora, the conference “Memory and Performance in African-Atlantic Futures” seeks to consider the current historical conjuncture and the extent to which it reveals new questions about memory in the historical, temporal and social contexts of slavery and imperialism.
The day-long outreach event will feature a tour of Leeds Discovery Centre’s taxidermy collections and a public reading by South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes, whose latest novel Green Lion (2015) considers conservation, ecological anxieties, and bereavement.