Interesting Talk on Postcolonial Scholarship

Hey all, this is coming a bit late as the event is today but if anyone is interested a well known Anthropologist Ann Stoler is speaking about colonial governance at the end of the History Graduate Students' Conference todayat 6:00.



Closing keynote lecture: Dr. Ann Laura Stoler, "Along the Archival Grain: Thinking Through Colonial Ontologies"

Postcolonial scholarship has become predictable precisely because our engagement with historical materials remains more an extractive enterprise than a dense ethnographic one. This lecture is both a challenge to what we think we know about how colonial governance worked and an invitation to think differently both about the content in the archival form and how we inhabit archival terrain.

Professor Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research, NY. Her work is wide-ranging and addresses colonial cultures, critical race theory, gender studies, political economy, historical methodologies, and Southeast Asia. Her current research focuses on the politics of comparison on North American empires and postcolonial studies as well as bourgeois Europe and colonial exiles. Her publications include Along the Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States (forthcoming); Tense and Tender Ties: Race and Empire in North American History (forthcoming); Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002); Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997); Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995); Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870–1979 (1985).