Reimagining the University Series Session 3: Post-Colonial Knowledge

This series explores the historical foundations, contemporary patterns, and possible transformations of the modern research university. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Session 3 on Post-Colonial Knowledge will take place Thursday, March 30 from 3:00-4:30pm EDT. See more info below.

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iCPsLXlPTUy2h9aYX89tGQ

Speakers:

Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia.

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Valerie Lambert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of the recent book Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a past President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists.

Moderators:

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.