[Reader-list] Talk at CSDS: Prof. Aamir Mufti on Said's missing homeland

[ravikant]

You are cordially invited for a hurriedly organised (apologies) talk by 
Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, UCLA. Aamir 
will speak from his current book project tentatively called Edward Said 
in Jerusalem.

So, Please come to the CSDS library on 23 December, 2009; 4.00 pm, to 
listen to and chat with Prof. Aamir Mufti on:

“The Missing Homeland of Edward Said.”

Note on the speaker:

http://www.complit.ucla.edu/people/faculty/mufti/

Aamir Mufti pursued his doctoral studies in literature at Columbia 
University under the supervision of Edward Said. He was also trained in 
Anthropology at Columbia and the London School of Economics, and his 
research and teaching reflect this disciplinary range. His work 
reconsiders the secularization thesis in a comparative perspective, with 
a special interest in Islam and modernity in India and the cultural 
politics of Jewish identity in Western Europe. His areas of 
specialization include: colonial and postcolonial literatures, with a 
primary focus on India and Britain, and nineteenth- and 
twentieth-century Urdu literature in particular; Marxism and aesthetics; 
Frankfurt School critical theory; minority cultures; exile and 
displacement; refugees and the right to asylum; modernism and fascism; 
language conflicts; global English and the vernaculars; and the history 
of Anthropology. His most recent contribution to the study of secularism 
is a book, *Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the 
Crisis of Postcolonial Culture (*Princeton University Press). Current 
work includes two book projects—one concerning exile and criticism and 
the other, the colonial reinvention of Islamic traditions. He edited 
“Critical Secularism,” a special issue of the journal *boundary 2* and 
has also co-edited *Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial 
Perspectives *(University of Minnesota Press). His work has appeared in 
such periodicals as S*ocial Text, Critical Inquiry,* S*ubaltern 
Studies*, *boundary 2*, the *Journal of Palestine Studies*, *Theory and 
Event*, and the *Village Voice.* He has happy memories of serving for 
several years as a member of the editorial collective of S*ocial Text*, 
but has long since changed his loyalties to *boundary 2*.


ravikant
CSDS, Delhi