March 11 and 12, 2010
CCFI and CFIS COSMO/POLITICS Noted Scholar Lecture Series
Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights | March 11, 2010
Of Other Worlds to Come | March 12, 2010
Dr. Pheng Cheah, is Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (Columbia, 2003) and Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Harvard, 2006). He is also the co-editor of Derrida and the Time of the Political (Duke, 2009). He is currently working on books about world literature in the age of global financialization and the concept of instrumentality.
Co-sponsored by:
Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian Studies, Department of Educational Studies, Department of English, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, and UBC Office of Access and Diversity.