CCS and the Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network are pleased to announce the visit of Professor Sanjay Seth from Goldsmiths College in London. Professor Seth's visit is funded by the Distinguished Visiting Scholar Scheme by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and he will stay at UTS and CCS for one month from the end of April.
About Professor Sanjay Seth
Sanjay Seth is Professor of Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published in the fields of modern Indian history, political and social theory, postcolonial theory and international relations. He’s particularly interested in how modern European ideologies, and modern Western knowledge more generally, ‘travelled’ to the non-Western world- and what effects this had both on the non-Western world, and on modern, Western knowledge. He’s current work is focused on whether the presumptions that inform our modern knowledge are ‘universal’, meaning adequate to all times and places- as is usually supposed- or whether they are in fact parochial, presumptions that are specifically modern and Western but that illegitimately pass themselves off as universal.
A range of events have been organised around his visit, for further information please visit our events page:
29 April
Seminar: The ‘Woman Question’ in India and China
Time: 4 – 6 pm
Where: Room 203, Level 14, UTS Building 10 (235 Jones Street)
Please click here for more information about the seminar.
12 May
States of Emergency: colonialism and post-colonialism
Time: 9 – 5 pm
Where: Room 201, Level 14, UTS Building 10 (235 Jones Street)
Other speakers include: Dr Annie Pfingst (UTS), Dr Damian Spruce (UTS) and Mark Isaacs (Author of the Undesirables)
20 May
Seminar: Higher Education in India and its discontents
Time: 12 – 2 pm
Where: Room 203, Level 14, UTS Building 10 (235 Jones Street)
Please click here for more information about the seminar.