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Coming up at CAPI
Talk
Amma's Daughters - A memoir
Meenal Shrivastava, Athabasca University, Sikata Banerjee, UVic Gender Studies
10 Jan
Talk
Empire of Guns and the Industrial Revolution
Priya Satia, Stanford University
16 Jan
Talk
Return from the brink: coral recovery on the Kiritimati Atoll following the 2015-2016 El Niño
Kristina Tietjen, UVic Biology MSc student
17 Jan
Talk
The Huawei Case, Extradition & Canada-US-China Relations
Asad Kiyani, UVic Law, Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow
24 Jan
Talk
Security, Terror and Colonial Modernity
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina; Discussants: Rachel Cleves, UVic History, Stephen Ross, UVic English
31 Jan
Film screening (Victoria Film Festival)
"Dead Pigs"
Cathy Yan, Director
4 & 6 Feb
Film screening (Victoria Film Festival)
"Ramen Shop"
Eric Khoo, Director
5 Feb
Looking at Japanese North American confinement during WWII
Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
Daromir Rudnyckyj, UVic Anthropology; Respondents: Greg Blue, UVic H
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An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference | 22 June 2022 – 24 June 2022 | University of Oxford
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
‘Saying We to Ourselves: Reciprocity as Resistance in Recent German-Language Literature’
Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge)
“Mir. Wir.” (Sharon Dodua Otoo, Adas Raum)
“I am because we are.” (John Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy)
“all things, all beings [must] expose sharing and circulation as such by saying ‘we’, by saying we to themselves in all possible senses of that expression” (Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural)
Sometimes there is an urgent need for oppositional resistance. Without overlooking that, I’d like to argue in this paper that oppositional resistance is an emergency measure rather than a solution, because it necessarily risks reproducing the structures it resists. Reciprocity provides (I shall suggest) a non-heroic, non-binary, and deeply subversive alternative to oppositional resistance. Reciprocity, as plural mutuality, subverts hierarchical and often binary structures. I will illustrate that with reference to recent fiction by contemporary German avantgarde writers such as Sharon Dodua Otoo and Olivia Wenzel, and will argue that that these literary texts not only indicate in their c
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