Kurs:Postcolonial Intellectuals

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Gayatri Spivak, "Cosmopolitanisms" Gayatri Spivak giving the keynote address at the "Lived Cosmopolitanisms: Identities, Languages, and Literatures in Littoral Asia" conference at University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 5, 2012. 1108 views
Gayatri Spivak lecture, "A Borderless World" at The University of Arizona
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Lecture "The Role of a Scholar" (with an introduction by Azfar Hussain) The internationally acclaimed Kenyan novelist-playwright-theorist-activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o gave this lecture titled "The Role of a Scholar in a Postcolonial World" at the Deapartment of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University, Pullman, in 2005, while Bangladeshi writer-activist Dr Azfar Hussain provided an elaborate introduction to Ngugi's life and works. 690 views
Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah With the publication of 1992s In My Fathers House, Kwame Anthony Appiah claimed his place at the forefront of African-American literary and cultural studies. A professor of philosophy at Princeton, he discusses how Western intellectuals and leaders have exaggerated the power of difference while neglecting the power of commonality. 10582 views
Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is widely recognized for his ability to join economics and philosophy, reflected in his work through ethics and a sense of common humanity. In this Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley he explores the violence of illusion. 15255 views