Robert Young

Robert Young is Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is one of the early pioneers and most influential scholars in the field of postcolonial literatures, an interdisciplinary field involving research that includes areas of history, theory, philosophy, anthropology and translation studies. Prof. Young has gained international renown with White Mythologies (1990) and Colonial Desire (1995). Prime concerns in his work are people and culture, margins and peripheries, and the knowledge and experience such communities produce.

Workshop with Professor Young

Prof. Robert Young
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Moderator

Registration is required for the Distinguished Lectures Series Workshop featuring the invited speaker (for contact details, please see below). After a short introduction round of the participants, the workshop is structured in three parts. Part 1 allows participants to ask questions related to the speaker’s lecture. Part 2 serves discussing a text by the invited speaker that participants receive as preparatory reading to the workshop. Part 3 offers the opportunity to bring up topics of discussion related to one’s own research or interest.

Date: October 19th, 2010
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, Haus der Universtiät, Schlösslistrasse 5

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch

Registration Workshop:                       

dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch