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Lisa Lowe: The Fetishism Of Colonial Commodities And The Intimacies Of Four Continents
Distinguished Lecture At The Department Of Social And Cultural Analysis
Date: Thursday, Apr 5th
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
(north of East 4th Street)
New York, NY 10003
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To RSVP:
Use form on right, Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Lisa Lowe: The Fetishism Of Colonial Commodities And The Intimacies Of Four Continents
Distinguished Lecture At The Department Of Social And Cultural Analysis
Date: Thursday, Apr 5th
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
(north of East 4th Street)
New York, NY 10003
See description for details
To RSVP:
Use form on right, Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
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This lecture revisits Marx's fetishism of commodities and nineteenth-century liberal policies of "free trade" in relation to products (like tea, sugar, cotton, and opium) that expressed the colonial and imperial relations between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Lisa Lowe is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Program in Critical Gender Studies. She has published books and articles on orientalism, immigration and globalization. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, and is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Her lecture is drawn from her forthcoming book, The Intimacies of Four Continents.
Co-sponsored by: NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, the NYU Postcolonial Seminar, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Department of Performance Studies