Post-Colonial Knowledge

Speaker Series

Post-Colonial Knowledge

Part 3 of Reimagining the University

March 30, 2023

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Manan Ahmed

Columbia University

Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia.

Valerie Lambert

University of North Carolina

Valerie Lambert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of the recent book Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a past President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists.

Gurminder K. Bhambra

University of Sussex

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.