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Autumn 2009 • HUM 597A • 1 credit, C/NC
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Serious Revisions:
History and Politics in the Work of Dipesh Chakrabarty
Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology and South Asian Studies)
Mondays, November 2, 9, and 23 - 1:30-3:30pm
Communications 202
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In conjunction with the visit to the University of Washington of Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer Dipesh Chakrabarty (Laurence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago) this seminar will devote close study to selected writings, paying particular attention to Chakrabarty’s workings out of universal and particular histories.
Chakrabarty’s work emerges out of a sustained engagement with the intimate histories of Bengal, radical approaches to history writing practiced by the Subaltern Studies Group, and the work of Marx and post-Marxian theory. The seminar is framed around three themes useful in approaching his work:
- Reworking Concepts and Categories
- The Political Life of the Nation
- History, Modernity, and Futurity
We will read selections from his major works according to these themes. In the final session we will turn to how Chakrabarty’s recent work on climate change and accounts of human subjectivity fit into and depart from his earlier concerns.
In addition to the three seminar sessions, attendance is also required at the following events:
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