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Gayatri Spivak, "Cosmopolitanisms"
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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.
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Gayatri Spivak lecture, "A Borderless World" at The University of Arizona
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Lecture "The Role of a Scholar" (with an introduction by Azfar Hussain)
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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.
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Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah
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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.
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Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion
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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.
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