As part of its Spring 2002 program, the Scripps College Humanities Institute will host a spring symposium, "Modernity from Below," April 4-6 in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons on the Scripps campus. For a schedule of sessions and times, please call (909) 621-8326. This event is free and open to the public.
Bringing together historians and cultural critics from a variety of fields and historical periods, the conference will encompass the impact of modernity and colonization on various peoples. Scholars will engage in the comparative discussion of the effects of modernity and colonization from eighteenth century Atlantic and Caribbean circuits of trade and colonization to Ireland, the Philippines and India through the twentieth century, the and of the ways in which the subordinated peoples have forged cultural and political alternatives that constitute a variegated terrain of "counter-modernities".
Visiting speakers include: Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Zita Nunes and Biodun Jeyifo, Cornell University; Joan Dayan, University of Pennsylvania; Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; John David Blanco, University of California, San Diego; Saidiya Hartman, Julio Ramos, and Jose Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley; Luke Gibbons, University of Notre Dame; Peter Linebaugh, University of Ohio, Toledo; Candace Vogler, University of Chicago; Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota; and Chungmoo Choi, University of California, Irvine. Conference sessions will be moderated by various professors from The Claremont Colleges.
Founded in 1986, the Scripps College Humanities Institute promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in forums both inside and outside the Scripps College curriculum and biannually hosts a symposium.