A conversation between:
Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Dr. Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Dr. Akshya Saxena, Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Preeti Singh, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, Dartmouth College
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: On Zoom
Isabel Huacuja Alonso is a historian of sound media and modern South Asia in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her book Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (Columbia University Press, January 2023) is a transnational history of radio broadcasting in Hindi and Urdu from the late colonial period through the early post-independence era (1920-1980).
Daniel Elam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in transnational Asian and African literatures in the twentieth century, modernism, postcolonial theory, and global intellectual history. He is the author of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (Fordham University Press, 2020) and Impossible and Necessary (Orient BlackSwan, 2020).
Akshya Saxena is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton University Press, 2022) and the co-editor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, Practice (University of California Press, 2023).
Preeti Singh is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages program at Dartmouth College. She researches and teaches postcolonial studies and world literature with a focus on twentieth and twenty-first-century South Asian and South Asian diasporic literatures and cinema.
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