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The Cornell Migrations codirectors will address questions about priorities, selection criteria, budgets, and other guidance on how to prepare a successful application. Proposals are due January 18, 2023.

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It is now widely accepted that the age of decolonization was also a turning point in the history of democracy, as the vast majority of the non-European world replaced imperial rule with democratic republics. Although this fact is taken for granted, scholarly attention so far has been focused on the nationalist aspiration of anticolonial movements and their contesting visions of self-determination. In the moment of its global conquest, democracy, it may seem, was an afterthought—or, at best, a logical corollary—for anticolonial thinkers preoccupied with overcoming empire.

Focusing on colonial India and departing from the standard narratives of anticolonialism, Nazmul Sultan argues that democracy was neither a given ideal waiting to be claimed nor reducible to the concerns of territorial sovereignty. Nazmul suggests that the problem of peoplehood sat at the heart of the monumental clash between the British Empire and the Indian anticolonial movement, inspiring in the process a rethinking of the meaning of democracy for the colonial world. He will also reflect on the place of the anticolonial moment in the global history of democratic thought.

Please join us for this virtual conversation. Register here.

About the Speaker

Nazmul S. Sultan is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (forthcoming with the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). His research has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and Review of Politics, among others.

Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program, and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.

Three recent literary winners of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature speak on poetry, travel, and Kiswahili intergenerational transcendence.

The Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature was founded by Cornell English Professor Mukoma wa Ngugi and Richmond American University London Assistant Professor Dr. Lizzy Attree. The award is sponsored by Cornell University’s Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Institute for African Development, the Safal Group, and the Ngugi wa Thiong’o Foundation.

After being awarded the Undergraduate Studies and International Foreign Language Grant (UISFL) in 2019, Cornell’s Institute for African Development (IAD) has increased its commitment to African languages on Cornell’s campus. Specifically targeting continued undergraduate engagement in Kiswahili, Twi, and Tumbuka languages, IAD’s contribution to African languages has expanded in the form of academic programming, language offerings, and increasing overall student engagement in African languages.

This literary panel is the first formal collaboration between the Institute for African Development (IAD) and the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. It will showcase three recent literary winners of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, as they speak on poetry, travel, and Kiswahili intergenerational transcendence. Participants will learn about contemporary Kiswahili African literature, the role it plays in the American higher education system, and why it is essential to encourage academic engagement in this disciplinary focus.

Register here: Keynote: Kiswahili Contemporary Literature | eCornell