January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
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"Bridging the Race Barrier: Between “Sakai” and “Malays” in the Census Categorisations of British Malaya", Asian Studies Review (Forthcoming 2013) for a special issue on Malaysia
“Situated Thinking: Or how the Science of Race was Socialised in British Malaya”, Journal of Pacific History 47,3 (2012), pp. 283-307
"Common Ground: Race and the colonial universe in British Malaya", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40,3 (2009), pp. 593-612.
"Africans in Asia: The discourse of 'Negritos' in early nineteenth century Southeast Asia", Responding to the West: Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency, Edited by Hans Hägerdal (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009).
AFRASO
Goethe-Universität
Juridicum, Postfach 21
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt
Tel.: +49 (0)69 798-25410
Fax: +49 (0)69 798-25411
info@afraso.org
January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.
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