Postcolonial and Related Literatures

LENT TERM 2026

Seminar Theme - Political Uprising

January 27

In collaboration with the Department of Geography’s Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series Dr Tariq Jazeel, University College London
Writing the Asian Underground: new multiplicities, new ethnicities, and urban soundscapes, 1995-2005
4.30-6 PM | Small Lecture Theatre | Department of Geography

February 5 Prof Miriyam Aouragh, University of Westminster
Infrastructural futurism in a settler-colonial present: anti-colonial epistemologies and Palestine as the world writ small
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building

February 12
Prof Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London
Who was Granville? Questions from the archive of the 1831-32 uprising in Jamaica
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building

March 5
Dr Cristina Moreno-Almeida, Queen Mary University of London
Dis-meme-bering the Nation: Memes, Monstrosity, and the Distortion of Nationalist Fantasies
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building

March 19
Dr Nada Ali, SOAS, University of London
On Being Sudanese: Identity, belonging and the politics of conflict
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building


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