Faculty, staff invited to virtually attend British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference for free
On Feb. 10 and 11, the Georgia Southern University Department of English will host the 32nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference.
Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students are invited to virtually attend the annual conference free of charge courtesy of the Department of English. Sessions run at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Friday, and at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. on Saturday.
Interested members of Eagle Nation can register for the Zoom event here.
Ousseina D. Alidou, Ph.D., African languages and literature professor at Rutgers University and president of the African Studies Association, will give the keynote lecture on Saturday at 1 p.m.
The thematic issues the presenters will address for this conference include:
- Imposing Power and Exploiting Its Differences
- Governance and the Postcolonial
- The Role of Postcolonial Studies in Addressing Systemic Injustice
- Historical Structures and the Postcolonial
- Recovering from Colonization, Reforming the Power Structures
- Postcolonial Intersectionality and Identity
- The Postcolonial in the Post-Pandemic
- The Demonizing of CRT
- Diversity Training and Other “divisive, anti-American propaganda”
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