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Past Events
3/5, 5-6:30pm, Esther Sin-Ching Yu, “On the Novel as Practice: The Conscience-Consciousness Nexus and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)”
Please join the Renaissance Workshop TUESDAY, March 5th, when Esther Sin-Ching Yu Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University presents the paper “On the Novel as Practice: The Conscience-Consciousness Nexus and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)” TUESDAY,...
Nicholson Faculty Lecture: Ulrike Stark, 4/24, 5pm
The Nicholson Center for British Studies Nicholson Faculty Lecture (2023-24) Ulrike Stark Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago Majestic Patronage Muslim and Christian Printing at the Lucknow Royal Press, 1819-1849 Introduction by...
Community Event: Uncommon Wealth at Pilsen Community Books, 2/9
Consider joining Nicholson Center Faculty Affiliate Julian Go this Friday, February 9th, at Pilsen Community Books, where he will be in discussion with Dr. Kojo Koram regarding Dr. Koram's book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. The discussion will...
Watch now: Karuna Mantena – Gandhi and Late Victorian Radicalism
Professor Karuna Mantena's Alison Winter Lecture is now available for streaming on the Nicholson Center's Youtube page. Tune in to learn more about Gandhi's early political development and the literary and activist milieu in which he circulated. Professor Mantena's...
Postcolonial Print Cultures, 1/18-1/19, 2024
Print Cultures before the Post-Colonial Era: The Miscellany Workshop of the International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures (IRNPPC) https://irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org/ Venue: University of Chicago Paris Center, 6 Rue Thomas Man, Paris...
“Edgeworth and Empire: The Moral Tales” Claire Connolly, 11/27
“Edgeworth and Empire: The Moral Tales” Claire Connolly talk on 11/27In collaboration with The Nicholson Center for British Studies The Department of English Language and Literature Presents
Nicholson Center Bulletin, 11/9
To access all links, please consult the pdf version: Nicholson Center Bulletin, 119 (1)
Karuna Mantena, “Gandhi and Late Victorian Radicalism,” Alison Winter Lecture
“Gandhi would have been Gandhi even without Thoreau and Tolstoy.” Albert Einstein’s quip succinctly captures a persistent dilemma about tracking the intellectual origins of Gandhi’s political ideas – especially the origins of satyagraha or nonviolent resistance. Scholars are not only divided on how to weigh the “Western” versus “Indian” provenance of Gandhi’s ideas, but the very question is saturated by assumptions about Gandhi’s intellectual sophistication and/or originality as a thinker (or lack thereof). This lecture revisits the formative role of late Victorian radicalism on Gandhi’s politics and political thought to track more precisely the influence and legacy of movements like vegetarianism and thinkers like Tolstoy and Thoreau. In so doing, I hope also to show that in Gandhi’s case especially, the origins/influence paradigm should give way to a mode of reconstruction that foregrounds formative conjunctures of theory and practice.
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema, 3CT, 11/16-11/18
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema Thursday, November 16–Saturday, November 18, 2023 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201 and Cobb Hall 307 On Mrinal Sen’s birth centenary, we celebrate his legacy on radical artistic practice....
Policing Empires: A Conversation with Julian Go, 11/2, 6-7pm
Please join us to celebrate Nicholson Center Faculty Affiliate Julian Go's new book Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. The event will be held at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, Thursday, November 2nd, 6-7pm....