University of East London
Centre for Cultural Studies Research

Invitation

UEL Centre for Cultural Studies Research first annual lecture, presented by:

Professor Homi K. Bhabha

Time, Agency and the Banality of Evil

Date: Wednesday 10 June 2009
Time: 17:30

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

Venue: Business School Main Lecture Theatre, Docklands Campus
Transport: Cyprus DLR

Pictured: Professor Homi K.Bhabha

We are delighted and honoured that Homi K.Bhabha, Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College London, is to give the first annual lecture at UEL's new Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR).

The lecture, entitled 'Time, Agency and the Banality of Evil', will explore 'the problem of political agency as the sudden turning of the ordinary, the banal, into the odious, the cruel or the evil; the problems of alterity in the recognition of agency and proximity; the traumatic making of memory in the present tense.'

Professor Bhabha is a renowned postcolonial theorist and cultural critic whose influential publication 'The Location of Culture' has been 
re-issued in the Routledge Classics series. He is currently at work on two new book projects: 'A Measure of Dwelling: a Theory of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism', forthcoming from Harvard University Press and 'The Right to Narrate', forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Refreshments will be served from 17:00. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is jointly sponsored by Iniva at Rivington Place and UEL's Centre for Cultural Studies Research. 'We are grateful to Professor Bhabha for making this very special appearance. Visitors are advised to book their places early.

All welcome, admission FREE, but places must be reserved.

For further details and to reserve your place, contact Gill Perkins on: g.s.perkins@uel.ac.uk For travel details to our Docklands campus see: www.uel.ac.uk/about_uel/why_uel/travelwise.htm