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“Postcards From Empire”

Gaiutra Bahadur - Keynote Lecture / "Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet it Is"
Monday, December 7, 2015
6:00-7:00 PM
100 (Gallery) Hatcher Graduate Library Map
Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning American journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her reporting,criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Dissent, History Today, Washington Post Book World, The Nation, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The (London) Observer and Ms., among other publications. "Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture" is her first book. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Book Prize, the British award for political writing that is artful.

This keynote lecture is part of the weeklong symposium, "Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is"

More about the Symposium:
Mon 12/7-Fri 12/11
Join artists, scholars and students in a five day exploration of Caribbean tourism, histories and gender identities. The symposiums calls for an interdisciplinary response to shifting imaginations about the power and potential of Caribbean studies viewed through the lens of a sugar-saturated past.
Building: Hatcher Graduate Library
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Africa, African American, International, Latin America, Public Health, Public Policy, Women's Studies
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, School of Public Health, Arts at Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for World Performance Studies, Department of American Culture, Latina/o Studies