Past Events
28 Dec 2025
Literary Historiographies: A Workshop
We propose to understand the act of writing and how it shapes the very human activities that make history. Poesis and performance located in the concrete existential world can only be understood as human action and hence structured as human relations by politics and ethics. History writing, historiography as a distinct set of textual and discursive practices is an existential activity; an intentional practice of being in the world; across modalities of understanding in literary, linguistic and cultural contexts.
6 Dec 2025
Beyond East / West: Or Does Shakespeare Still Matter?
In this talk, Dr. Rao considered what it means to think with and about Shakespeare given calls to decolonise the curriculum and move beyond the Western canon. In doing so, she asked whether the categories of East/West or indeed Global South/Global North are useful or do they sometimes elide structural inequities.
