Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture
The Ninth Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture was delivered by Samir Amin on Wednesday 24th April 2013. You can listen to a recording of the lecture here.
Amin is former Professor of Political Economy, University of Poitiers, Dakar, Senegal and the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes, France; director of Forum du Tiers Monde, Dakar, Senegal; President, World Forum for Alternatives. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The People’s Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution (2012); Eurocentrism (2010); Capitalism in the Age of Globalization(1997); Unequal Development: Social Formations at the Periphery of the Capitalist System (1978) and Accumulation on a World Scale (1974))The lecture is entitled 'The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South'.
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Previous Lectures
| The 2012 lecture, entitled ‘What’s Left in Postcolonial Studies?’ was delivered by Professor Benita Parry. Benita Parry is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published widely in postcolonial studies and the literatures of colonialism and imperialism. Her many publications include the monographs, Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 (1972, rev. 1998) and Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers (1984); the collection, Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (2004); and the edited volumes, Cultural Representations of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History (1998) and Postcolonial Criticism and Theory (1999). You can listen to a recording of the lecture here. |
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More About the Said Lecture
In 2004, the Department of English and Comparative Studies inaugurated an annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture to honour a prominent literary scholar and a renowned public intellectual who died in 2003.
Said understood criticism to be a 'humanistic activity' encompassing 'erudition and sympathy', sensitivity to 'inner tensions', and an openness to imponderables and mysteries. His own finely-tuned responsiveness to the singularity of any piece of writing with which he engaged, is evident in his innovative and surprising interpretations of both canonical and marginalised literature.
These same writings also register the obligation felt by Said to make visible the actual affiliations that exist between 'the world of ideas and scholarship on the one hand, and the world of brute politics, corporate and state power, and military force on the other.'
The University of Warwick had twice hosted visits from Edward Said. In 1994 the Department of English together with the Department of Philosophy held an International Conference on his work and the work this has generated. Papers presented at this conference were later published as Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson, Benita Parry and Judith Squires (1997). In 2001 Said received an Honorary Degree. On both occasions his crowded lectures revealed his singular ability to bring politics to scholarship and scholarship to politics.
This annual lecture is free and open to the public.
Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History
2004: Tim Brennan
2005: Tariq Ali
2006: Ahdaf Soueif
2007: Gilbert Achcar
2008: Declan Kiberd
2010: Eyal Weizman
2011: Mourid Barghouti
2012: Benita Parry
