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23rd Dec 2009, Wednesday, 4 pm
The Missing Homeland of Edward Said: talk by Prof Amir Mufti
CSDS Library
Professor Amir Mufti teaches at the department of comparative literatures at UCLA. Aamir Mufti pursued his doctoral studies in literature at Columbia University under the supervision of Edward Said. He was also trained in Anthropology at Columbia and the London School of Economics.
Prof Mufti's work reconsiders the secularization thesis in a comparative perspective, with a special interest in Islam and modernity in India and the cultural politics of Jewish identity in Western Europe. His most recent contribution to the study of secularism is a book, Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture (Princeton University Press). Current work includes two book projects—one concerning exile and criticism and the other, the colonial reinvention of Islamic traditions. He edited “Critical Secularism,” a special issue of the journal boundary 2 and has also co-edited Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (University of Minnesota Press).
Today's talk is part of his current book project about Edward Said, tentatively called “Edward Said in Jerusalem.”
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