Tuesday, April 12, 12:15–1:15 PM ET (ZOOM)
With all of the attention given to Britain’s interventions in India, France’s colonial projects in South Asia are often ignored and overlooked.
In Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Columbia University Press, 2021), historian Jessica Namakkal (Duke University) uses French India’s scattered territories to draw attention to the problematic discourses of “good” and “bad” colonialism and examines settler-colonial spaces like ashrams and utopian communities to show how experiences of decolonization linger after the end of imperial rule. Join us to learn more!
Sana Aiyar (History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ananya Jahanara Kabir (English Literature, King’s College), and Jayita Sarkar (International Relations, Boston University) will be joining the author for this conversation.
Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College) will moderate.
Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-namakkal
This event is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund | the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program | and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.
All are welcome to attend.