Subaltern Pasts and Subaltern Futures

15/06/2007 - 15:00

15 June 2007
15 - 17 hrs

A seminar with Prof. Gyanendra Pandey

Venue: Room 001, Spinhuis, OZ Achterburgwal 185, Amsterdam

In this seminar we will read and discuss Prof. Pandey's work on subaltern studies, covering a period of more than two decades. You need to register for this seminar as places are limited. Please register with Michiel Baas at M.Baas2@uva.nl

Readings (four articles / chapters) will be provided after registration.

Gyanendra Pandey is one of the founding members of the Subaltern Studies group. He is currently the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University. He received his B.A. at University of Delhi and his D.Phil. at Oxford University. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001); Memory, History and the Question of Violence (1999); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990); and many collaborative works and articles. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1970-73). Before coming to Emory University he taught at the University of Delhi and at Johns Hopkins.