Moderated by Professor Tim Barringer, from Yale’s History of Art department, the panel will feature three invited speakers:
Prof. Sandeep Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2019). His articles have appeared (or will appear) in Modern Asian Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Mediations in addition to several anthologies. A recipient of several prestigious grants, he is also a General Editor of the Routledge Series in the Cultures of the Global Cold War. He is currently completing his second book, provisionally titled Peripheral Aesthetics: Mimesis in an Uneven World.
Prof. Fiona Kearney is the founding Director of the Glucksman, a purpose-built contemporary art museum on the campus of University College Cork. In this position, she has curated numerous exhibitions of Irish and international art, with a particular emphasis on how contemporary art practice relates to research directions within academic discourse. Recent exhibitions include Home: Being and. Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, Circadian Rhythms: Art and Biological Time, The Parted Veil: Commemoration in Photographic Practices, PRISM: the Art and Science of Light, and Outposts: Global Borders and National Boundaries.
Dr. Sadiah Qureshi is a historian of racism, science and empire and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham. Her first book, Peoples on Parade (2011), explored the importance of displaced peoples for the emergence of anthropology. She is currently writing her next book, provisionally entitled Vanished: Episodes in the History of Extinction, for Allen Lane.
