Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University
The Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University engages in interdisciplinary and transnational research, teaching, and dialogue on the culture and politics of contemporary postcolonial and neo–liberal racial and gender formations and the historical legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Created in the fall of 2004, the IRGG organizes colloquia, conferences, film screenings, and hosts visiting artists and scholars.
IRGG Speaker Series
Fall 2009
In the Falling Snow: An Evening with Caryl Phillips
Monday, October 12
Time TBA
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street
Please join us for a celebration of the US publication of Caryl Phillip’s latest novel, In the Falling Snow. The novel captures issues of diasporicity, class, and race in the late modern world through the story of both a man - Keith - at a turning point in his life and of a society moving from one notion of itself to another. For more information on Phillips and his work, please visit his website.
Event co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
New Directions in Caribbean Studies Keynote Address: David Scott
Thursday, November 5
4:30pm
10 Sachem Street, Room 105
New Directions in Caribbean Studies aims to question the place of Caribbean Studies in the global present at the level of conception, trajectory, and the political. Working interdisciplinary across interpretive platforms in the humanities and social sciences, NDIC aims to come to grips with the relationship of Caribbean Studies to both modern and late modern social formations.
Professor Scott is an internationally recognized scholar of Caribbean Studies. Since completing his last book Conscripts of Modernity he has oriented himself to the question of Third World sovereignty. In his research, he queries: What are the new local and global conditions in which the problem of sovereignty arises in – and for – the Third World?
Please note, only the keynote event of the New Directions in Caribbean Studies Interinstitutional Network Meeting is open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the IRGG, the Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Dorothy Clarke Kemf Memorial Fund and the Center for Transnational Analysis
Blonde Roots: An Evening with Bernadine Evaristo, Moderated by Caryl Phillips
Monday, November 16
Time TBA
Labyrith Books, 290 York Street
Please join us for a discussion and celebration of the publication of Bernadine Evaristo’s latest novel Blonde Roots. The novel explores many social, ethical, and historical issues: the most controversial of all being the reversal of the transatlantic slave trade. The novel concerns itself what it means for Africans to assume the role of mastery over Europeans.
Evaristo has published one prose novel, one novella, two novels-in-verse and one novel-with-verse. Other produced and published works include poetry, short stories, radio and theatre drama. She is also the recipient of the Member of the British Empire award. Please visit her website for further information. Caryl Phillips, Professor of English at Yale University, will moderate the discussion and serve as interlocutor.
This event co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books.
An Evening with Thomas Glave
Moderated by Caryl Phillips
Monday, December 7
Time TBA
Labyrith Books, 290 York Street
Thomas Glave is an award winning author and currently visiting Professor for 2008-09 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Glave is author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, nominated by the American Library Association for their “Best Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year” award and by the Quality Paperback Book Club for their Violet Quill/Best New Gay/Lesbian Fiction Award. His essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, nominated for a 2006 Publishing Triangle Gay Men’s Nonfiction Award, won a 2005 Lambda Literary Award. His edited anthology, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, was published in June 2008. For more information on Thomas Glave, please visit his website.
This event co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books.
