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… 4:00 pm Techno-topias and Ethno-topias: Urban India in the Age of Global Modernity Jyoti Hosagrahar This paper will … This paper probes the image of the urban in post-1947 visual culture by situating it in a larger context of … of the last 20 years. The films work with an investigative cartography, mobilizing the city through narratives cluttered …

… the studio to talk about the Mendi Mission, established by radical abolitionists in the wake of the Amistad rebellion, … the Africans: Empathy, Authority, and Insanity in the Age of Abolition,”  Journal of American History , Vol. 96 …

… of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale University Press). The winner will be … of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire.” Challenging the argument that Great Britain ended slavery in East Africa by …

… Beinecke Mezzanine Repoliticizing the Abolitionists in Our Age of Fundamentalist Politics James Brewer Stewart, … to follow. The Global Garrison: America’s Premier Radical Abolitionist and the International Response Richard … into publication. The series is intended to be a major event in the intellectual life of Yale, and the books to be …

… Lugo-Ortiz “On the Appearance of the Enslaved’s Face in Visual Portraiture” Despite their historically parallel … on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct … face historically possible in the dignifying realm of visual portraiture. Wayne Modest “Remembering to Forget: …

… government planning in the process. The complexity of cartography as a record of political developments is also …

… by Antonio Somaini, Visiting Professor on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard. A panel discussion will follow the … St Bio: Antonio Somaini is Professor in Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle … of the concept of “medium.” He is the author of two books (Visual Culture: Images, Gazes, Media, Dispositives, published …

… The old dame of the house was nearly seventy years of age. We found her occupied in playful attentions with two of … in their offspring of the present day. To whatever age the parents may have lived, it is remarkable that, … against this doctrine of conversion, that scarcely another argument can be necessary to its refutation. Although living …

… and sociology of science and technology, literature, and visual and material culture. Contemporary topics will include … environmental risks, community formation in the Digital Age, and the proliferation of cultural industries. As the … well as the appeal of South Asian goods, design, religion, visual and performing arts, and technical expertise brought …

… interdisciplinary teaching that links literature and visual culture has been an integral part of all of the … at Yale. For example, her “Literature and Painting in the Age of Tolstoy” course was a Freshman Seminar offered in fall …

… in post-2008 financial crisis leftism, the book offers a radical alternative to traditional anti-capitalist narratives … rather that the central social injustice of the modern age is the emergence of ‘precarity for all’, as even the …

… will not accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age. He would become an insufferable burden to society. … that set white children free, and remitted them at the age of fourteen, males and females, to all the rights, both … on the general subject of slavery in the abstract. The argument has commenced. One set of ideas will govern and …