Petrou Faculty Polyseminar: "Framing the Study of Race and Empire" with Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Tufts University. Her research interests include comparative literature, British empire, US-Asia studies, and transnational feminism. She teaches courses in the Global Eighteenth Century, Asian diaspora literature, metaphors of globalization, and decolonization and postcolonial thoguht. Her books include The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015);The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, with D. Lloyd (Duke University Press, 1997); Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996); and Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press, 1991).

Participation in Lisa Lowe's Petrou Faculty Polyseminar is open to all UMD instructional faculty and postdoctoral fellows, and will be capped at 25. Lunch will be provided for all preregistered participants.

Register here. 

Reading selections:

1. Achile Mbembe: "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive" (published online here)

2. Shu-mei Shih, "Comparison as Relation", in Rita Felski and Susan Standford Friedman, eds. Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2013): 79-98.   (pdf provided upon registration)