So I’ve been quite the blog delinquent– I promise to begin posting events again, but for now, here’s one at Cuny that’s been passed along to me:
The CUNY Graduate Center
Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2008-2009
The Postcolonial Studies Group presents:
Mark Sanders
New York University
Reparation and Substitution: South Africa’s Truth
Commission and the Afterlife of Apartheid
Nov 14th AT 2 P.M.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409
All are welcome.
Mark Sanders is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He
is the author of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (Duke UP, 2002), which
analyzes the problem of complicity confronted during the apartheid era by South
African intellectuals, and proposes a theory of intellectual responsibility. Also the
author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory (Continuum, 2006), his most
recent book is Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth
Commission (Stanford UP, 2007), an interdisciplinary analysis of testimony given
before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the body that
investigated human rights abuses committed during the apartheid era. He is editor
of a special issue of the journal Diacritics on “Ethics” that appeared in winter 2005,
and co-editor of “J.M. Coetzee and His Doubles,” a special issue of the Journal of
Literary Studies in preparation. His interests range widely, with published essays on
Primo Levi, Franz Kafka, J.M. Coetzee, Thomas Pynchon, and Marlene van
Niekerk, and translations from the Afrikaans of essays by N.P. van Wyk Louw. He
has held a number of major fellowships, including, most recently, the American
Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp research fellowship, and the
George Watson fellowship at the University of Queensland, Australia.
The CUNY Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
The Postcolonial Studies Group is a chartered organization of the Doctoral Students’
Council.
