2018 Events Archive

CHASE Postgraduate Symposium 2018

Research in the Arts and Humanities: From the Postcolonial to the Global

15^th September 2018

University of Sussex

This postgraduate symposium, a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Sussex, and hosted by the University of Sussex, was part of the CHASE (Consortium of the Humanities and the Arts, Southeast England) initiative. It invited MA and PhD students to present their research in individual fifteen-minute papers and gain valuable professional and peer-feedback. Supporting individual postgraduate presentations, the symposium included papers by the convenors on developments in the sector, journal publication, disseminating your work and impact, presentation skills and advice on employability and career-paths in academia.

One-day Symposium

Citizenship, Infrastructure and the Postcolonial

29^th June 2018

Open University, Camden, London

Keynote: Nikhil Anand, “Public Matters: On Intimacy and the Making of Water Infrastructure in Mumbai”

Citizenship in the postcolonial world has been the subject of extensive research and theory in the social sciences over the last two decades. While research to date has been dominated by the discursive enunciation of citizenship in relation to nation, community and religion, the most innovative recent work in the field, following the urban turn in the social sciences, has highlighted the imbrication of the language and rhetoric of citizenship with access to key infrastructures. This symposium brought these two concepts together to ask how postcolonial forms of – increasingly urban – citizenship are shaped by, and operate in conjunction with, infrastructures providing air, water, energy, housing, transport, education, waste-collection, communications, and educational and health services.

Public Lecture

Professor Priya Joshi (Temple University, Philadelphia), “The Novel as Commodity:  Rewiring Book History”

28th March 2018

Senate House, University of London

Co-sponsored by the Open University’s Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Cluster

and the History of Books and Reading Research Collaboration.