FRIENDLY REMINDER
Faculty & Graduate Seminar / Professional Development
Sponsored by Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, Department of English and American Studies Program
“The Intimacies of Four Continents”
Friday, November 13, 2015
12:00 – 2:15 PM
Stern Lounge, Austin Room 217
The Seminar will focus on LISA LOWE’s newly released The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press) – specifically on Chapters 1, 3, and 5.
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, she connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions.
Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of the widely cited Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996) and the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), both published by Duke University Press.
For more information, contact: Cathy Schlund-Vials at cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu