Save the Date! Richard A. Macksey Lecture (Homi Bhabha)
Schedule
Wed, 16 Apr, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies | Washington, DC
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AGHI will host Homi K. Bhabha for our annual Richard A. Macksey lecture on Wednesday, April 16th at 5 PM. The title and abstract will be available in early 2025.Register here! https://forms.office.com/r/qMV0U8PhcH
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the English Department and Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University. He served as the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, founding director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, and in the inaugural position of Senior Advisor to the President and Provost of Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. His works include The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic, and the edited volume Nation and Narration. Bhabha has also written on contemporary art for Artforum and essays on the work of William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Taryn Simon, and Matthew Barney, amongst others. With the support of the Volkswagen and Mellon Foundations, Bhabha has led a research project on the Global Humanities. He is a Corresponding Fellow at The British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Critic-in-Residence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1997 he was profiled by Newsweek as one of “100 Americans for the Next Century.” He holds honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Stellenbosch University. He has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize and the Government of India’s Padma Bhushan Presidential Award in the field of literature and education, and spoken at the Vatican.
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Where is it happening?
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue,Washington D.C., Washington, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
