FASS Bookshare Spring 2018
Event Information
Description
FASS Bookshare celebrates and showcases books authored by faculty members who have dedicated years of research into their publications.
In previous years Bookshare has highlighted single-authored books in a range of disciplines and topics, such as Asian Mobility, Power, and Representation, Development, Migration, and Protest in Asia and Southeast Asian Cosmopolitanism, Urbanism, and Tourism. This edition of Bookshare focuses on Religion, Diaspora, and Travel.
Programme
1:45pm-2pm: Registration and Refreshments
2-2:05pm: Associate Professor Michelle Lazar introduces the authors and books.
2:05-2:20pm: Professor Robbie Goh presents Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora: Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions.
2:20-2:35pm: Assistant Professor Anne Thell presents Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature.
2:35-2:50pm: Assistant Professor John Solomon presents A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore: The Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability, 1872-1965.
2:50-3:05pm: Q & A Session
3:05-3:30pm: Refreshments
Read the FASS Bookshare Catalogue here.
Seating is limited, so do RSVP early and if your plans change, please cancel the reservation.
About the Speakers
Robbie Goh is a Professor of Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He is currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His teaching and research interests lie in Diaspora Studies, Indian Anglophone Literature, Christianity in Asia, the Bible and Literature/Popular Culture, Late Nineteenth Century English Literature, and Speculative Fiction. Some of his recent publications include Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change (ed), The Politics of English in Asia (co-ed. with Lionel Wee and Lisa Lim), and articles in Numen, Culture and Religion, Material Religion, and Social Semiotics. He is currently working on a book on Affecting the Landscape (co-authored with Lionel Wee), and another solo-authored book on Indian Anglophone Literature.
Anne M. Thell is an Assistant Professor of English literature at National University of Singapore. She received her B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Fordham University (New York, NY). Her first book, Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature (Bucknell UP, 2017), examines the development of the travel genre alongside shifts in eighteenth-century epistemology. Her work has appeared in such journals as Configurations, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Studies in the Novel, and has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Institute, Chawton House Library, and the Singapore Ministry of Education. She is currently President of the Southeast Asian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SASECS).
John Solomon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. His research interests include the exploration of how national and ethnic identities are shaped by social and political processes, particularly how identities shape the ways that people interact with other communities, nation-states and the wider world. His current research trajectories have developed out of initial interests in race and missionary ethnography in colonial South India, and untouchable Indian labour migrants in colonial Singapore. He also has a keen interest in oral histories and the histories of everyday people whose voices have been diminished within traditional archival sources.
Directions: From Kent Ridge MRT take bus A1 from Exit A and alight at LT 13.
Walk up a small hill to AS7. Take the elevator to level 6 and walk around the corner past the restrooms. Turn left at the glass door; the Seminar Room will be in front of you.
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