Events

Feb

18

Lecture

Ethiopia’s Outstretched Hand: James Bruce’s Ethiopianism and the African Origins of a Global Idea with Rebekah Mitsein

Location:

STEPS 101

February 18, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

In James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790), he makes a bold claim about the origins of humanity: Egypt was populated from Africa up; culture and learning spread from Ethiopia out. This talk, and the biography from which it comes, is a story about sources:…

Mar

18

Lecture

The Emergence of Anglophone Literature in Eighteenth-Century India and the Future of Postcolonial Studies with James Mulholland

Location:

STEPS 101

March 18, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk outlines a new literary history of British Asia, examining the emergence of anglophone literature within its earliest communities and cultural institutions through translocal and regional frameworks. By redefining anglophone writing in India as constituted by multi…

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Events

Feb

18

Ethiopia’s Outstretched Hand: James Bruce’s Ethiopianism and the African Origins of a Global Idea with Rebekah Mitsein

Mar

18

The Emergence of Anglophone Literature in Eighteenth-Century India and the Future of Postcolonial Studies with James Mulholland