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Join us on Zoom on February 2, 2024 for a thrilling conversation about how this collective has focused on deconstructing the processes of internal and external colonization in Nepali history. Register here: uic.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

-and revisions of the cultural canon ought to aim both to construct “postcolonial alterities” and to deconstruct dichotomies endemic to “the colonial imaginary” (Uerlings).

-semiotics. Intercultural and postcolonial readings take impulses from several works of German and cultural Studies scholars, who have urged a critical re-examination of the history of European scholarship as one conditioned by ideology. Seen from this perspective, re-readings-

Detailed schedule available at: german.uic.edu/events/nordsud… Intercultural and postcolonial approaches to literature have opened up interstitial and transitional discursive spaces that can deprivilege Eurocentric ways of reading via cultural transfers that generate an intercultural-

and Multilingualism in One Woman’s War: Da (Mother).” Join us here: uic.zoom.us/j/87329552896?…

discursive and non-discursive representations of somatic pain and psychological trauma in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. For the meeting, Azadeh will be workshopping an article draft entitled: "She Bursts into Languages: Trauma-

Dr. Azadeh Safaeian is a Bridge to Faculty Scholar in the Disability & Human Development department. Her work focuses on disability and trauma studies, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, animal studies, and film theory. Her current book project attends to the-

We had a full house yesterday for our Faculty Fellow lecture with Joaquin Chavez! #UIC #uicinstituteforthehumanities #HumanitiesInstitute #Humanities #humanitiesresearch

At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing October 19-20, 2023 100 Architecture + Design Studios 845 W. Harrison St Register at arch.uic.edu/events/home-co…. #architecture #Chicago #humanities #UIC

Fellows Lecture: Joaquín M. Chávez, History "Avant-Garde Diplomacy and Cold War Politics in Latin America: The Joint French-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador" October 12, 2023 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Institute for the Humanities

SEENEXT Talk: Vladimir Putin’s Aggression and Suicide: The Cultural-Interactionist Perspective October 13, 2023 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM The Institute

Sink or Swim. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene October 11, 2023 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Institute Part of Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance festival. Full programme here: centrumcentrum.xyz/polishsoundtra…. #humanities #UIC #Polish #Chicago

Fellows Lecture: Nasser Mufti, English "Britain's Nineteenth Century, 1963-4" October 4, 2023 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UIC Institute for the Humanities

Today at Hull House!!!

Pssst! The Institute is hiring a graduate research assistant for the Spring 2024 semester, and the window to apply is closing soon! Apply at #UICHandshake by this Sunday, October 1. Questions? Email huminst@uic.edu.

"Take It As a Fairy Tale": Varlam Shalamov as a Storyteller September 27, 2023 4 PM - 6 PM 1750 University Hall Prof Emily Van Buskirk considers Varlam Shalamov as a storyteller on the model of Benjamin’s famous 1936 essay.

The Humanizing Critical Race Theory Project Launch Funded by the Mellon Foundation September 28, 2023 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hull House Dr. Adrien Wing is the featured speaker. #humanities #UIC #Chicago

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