Martin Wight Lecture: Gurminder Bhambra on the Decolonial Project of Europe
On 11 November (3.30-4.30pm BST), join us online to hear from Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies and a Fellow of the British Academy. The event is free and available to everyone.
Gurminder is the author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the award-winning Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2007). She has co-edited a volume on Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) and has spoken regularly on the crisis for refugees in Europe and on questions of citizenship in the light of Brexit.
This talk sets out the ‘varieties of colonialism’ at the heart of the European project and asks what a decolonial project of Europe would look like. Gurminder argues it would be one that makes the colonial histories of Europe central to our understandings of its present and which seeks redress of the injustices associated with that history through postcolonial reparative action.
You can book your free place now.