Global Perspectives: How to disagree, with Professor Homi Bhabha FBA

How can we engage with the people we strongly disagree with or even dislike? Professor Simon Goldhill FBA invites leading scholar and critical theorist Professor Homi Bhabha FBA to explore how to successfully disagree, and how the humanities and social sciences nurture one of our greatest strength: our critical thinking.
 
Speakers:
 
Professor Homi Bhabha FBA
 
Professor Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Languages, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Senior Advisor to the President and Provost at Harvard University.
He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism, including Nation and Narration, and The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic in 2004. His forthcoming book projects will be published by some of the leading university publishers in the United States: Harvard University Press will publish A Global Measure, and Columbia University Press will publish The Right to Narrate, and a book on contemporary art to be published by the University of Chicago Press. Bhabha is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies. He has developed a number of the field’s key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence – terms that, according to Bhabha’s theory, describe ways in which colonised peoples have resisted the power of the coloniser.
 
Chair:
 
Professor Simon Goldhill FBA
 
Simon Goldhill is currently Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. He has just finished his time as director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge (CRASSH).
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of King’s College, Cambridge. Goldhill’s research interests include: Greek tragedy, Greek culture, literary theory, later Greek literature, and reception. His latest book is The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022). In 2020, Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity, was published by Cambridge University Press. He is the author of many influential monographs including Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality (1995), The Temple of Jerusalem (2005), Who Needs Greek? (2002), A Very Queer Family: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain (2016) and Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia (1985). Goldhill directed the European Research Council–funded project ‘The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture’.
 
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