Britain’s Legacy on the Indian Subcontinent (050662-SS 2025): GAPS Conference: Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies (29-31 May at the University of Bielefeld)

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This is an alternative way to obtain credit points. At this conference, two papers will be presented that deal with the topic of India from a cultural studies perspective. Your task would be to attend the conference on the respective day (30 May) and write a response paper. You would need to register by 19 May. If you are interested, I will inform you in more detail about how such a response paper should look like. Of course, you could also just attend the conference out of interest or curiosity. There will be an interesting roundtable discussion for teachers on Saturday (31 May): ‘Teaching Postcolonial Studies in the English Classroom’; as well as a presentation by Roger Dale Jones on Friday (30 May): "Freedom for the Pike? Poverty and Capitalism in German EFL Schoolbooks"

The relevant papers are

Akshay Kumar: "Reimagining Postcolonialism: Ambedkar, Caste, and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Context"

Harald Pittel: "Structure of Feeling as a Mode of Resistance? Countering the Capitalist Crisis of Indian Cinema"

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