Postcolonial Melancholia Conference

March 13-14, 2009

Questions of melancholia—especially those generated by scholars working with Freudian traditions—have inspired and haunted much critical work in the humanities over the last decade. Often the theme has been brought to bear on the analysis of European colonialism and its aftermaths, yet much remains to be said, particularly with regard to non-psychoanalytic and non-Western modes of thinking through loss. This conference will engage intersections between melancholia, postcolonial theory and colonial history by exploring issues of loss and defeat in a series of keynote lectures and small panels.

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Sponsored by: The Department of Comparative Literature, The Office of International Affairs, The Cogut Center for the Humanities.