Presented By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender
“Postcards From Empire”
Gaiutra Bahadur - Keynote Lecture / "Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet it Is"
Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning American journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her reporting,criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Dissent, History Today, Washington Post Book World, The Nation, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The (London) Observer and Ms., among other publications. "Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture" is her first book. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Book Prize, the British award for political writing that is artful.
This keynote lecture is part of the weeklong symposium, "Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is"
More about the Symposium:
Mon 12/7-Fri 12/11
Join artists, scholars and students in a five day exploration of Caribbean tourism, histories and gender identities. The symposiums calls for an interdisciplinary response to shifting imaginations about the power and potential of Caribbean studies viewed through the lens of a sugar-saturated past.
This keynote lecture is part of the weeklong symposium, "Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is"
More about the Symposium:
Mon 12/7-Fri 12/11
Join artists, scholars and students in a five day exploration of Caribbean tourism, histories and gender identities. The symposiums calls for an interdisciplinary response to shifting imaginations about the power and potential of Caribbean studies viewed through the lens of a sugar-saturated past.
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