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Decolonizations, a two-day symposium, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 1 and 2, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the American Indian Studies Program, brings together leading scholars from postcolonial/subaltern studies and American Indian/indigenous studies. Decolonizations will seek to interrogate the critical purchase of the categories "subaltern" and "indigenous" for urgent issues involving colonialism, decolonization and globalization. It will cast a comparative and transnational eye on critical movements that have emerged out of different historical and intellectual traditions but offer many opportunities for dialogue. The conference is, in part, inspired by the 25th anniversary of Gayatri Spivak's talk "Can the Subaltern Speak?" at a 1983 Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory conference, and the 20th anniversary of its publication as an essay in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (University of Illinois Press, 1988).

For more information:

Call 265-9870, or visit http://www.nah.uiuc.edu

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