Monday, April 20, 2020

Memorial Lecture Series









As one of the most prominent and influential intellectuals of our times, Zygmunt Bauman envisaged and practiced sociology as a dialogical activity.

Postcolonial Bauman | 10th Anniversary Lecture Series


University of Leeds

Given the current global uncertainty concerning the risks of travel (as well as possible restrictions on movement, perhaps into September) – the conference will transition into a series of online lectures to celebrate the 10th Anniversary in conjunction with the 3rd PIN conference. Further details on this are forthcoming. For more information and updates, see the conference website

Confirmed keynotes: 
  • Etienne Balibar
  • Carlo Bordoni
  • David Lyon
One of the most prominent and influential intellectuals of our times, Zygmunt Bauman envisaged and practiced sociology as a dialogical activity. Though he is better remembered for being a postmodern than a postcolonial figure, the conference seeks to turn the tables by asking what Bauman might have to offer postcolonial studies, and by corollary what postcolonial critics, who have only rarely engaged with Bauman, might have to say about his work.

Jointly held by the Bauman Institute - celebrating its 10th anniverary - and the Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics Network (PIN), this transdisciplinary conference proceeds in this spirit by inviting a dialogue between Bauman and postcolonial studies, each of which reflects on the compositie figure of 'postcolonial Bauman': 
  • Postcolonialism and Postcommunism
  • Postcolonial Europe
  • The Intellectual as Outsider
  • The Intellectual as seen from the Outside

Organising Committee:
Professor Griselda Pollock, Dr Mark Davis, Professor Max Silverman, Professor Tony Bryant, Professor Graham Huggan, Dr Jack Palmer, Ms Sarah McLaughlin.
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