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SUMMARY:Orientalism: Said and After (Joint Graduate Workshop Symposium) - 
 See programme for speaker list
DTSTART:20070223T020000Z
DTEND:20070223T060000Z
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CONTACT:Su Lin Lewis
DESCRIPTION:The Modern European History Workshop\, the World History Works
 hop\, the Modern British History Workshop and the Political and Intellectu
 al History Workshop would like to invite all graduates to attend the sympo
 sium Orientalism\, Said and After.\n\nThe papers presented at this symposi
 um explore the relationship between East and West in terms of culture\, po
 litics\, and empire\, the historiography of the East by European scholars\
 , and the use of the East as a way to emphasize a European identity. Tradi
 tionally defined as the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultur
 es\, languages and peoples by Western scholars\, Orientalism in a wider se
 nse might also refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern 
 cultures in the West by writers\, designers and artists. Said's Orientalis
 m (1978) redefined the term through the unequal power relationship implied
  by the essentialising European gaze\, arguing that the Foucauldian "durab
 ility" of hegemonic systems was inherent in all cultural transmission and 
 appropriation between East and West. The symposium will consider "Orientia
 lism" in different historical and historiographic contexts\, through case 
 studies and discussion of some recent debates about Said's seminal represe
 ntation of East-West relations.
LOCATION:Newnham Terrace Seminar Room\, Darwin College
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