Lecture: “Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship” November 20, 2008

This event will take place in Fisher Science Center, Clark Auditorium.

English professor at the University of Chicago, Leela Gandhi will examine anticolonial politics as the product of numerous transnational collaborations, friendships and conversations between western and non-western dissidents. Gandhi’s recently published book, Affective Communities (2006), understands colonial encounters not as evidence of violence and conflict, but rather small subjugated narratives of cross-cultural collaboration between oppressors and oppressed, concerned with a visionary commitment to the end of institutionalized suffering. It celebrates a perspective motivated by M.K Gandhi’s.