Sandipto Dasgupta at the Political Theory Workshop: "Anticolonial Democracy, Postcolonial Demography”
Thursday, February 15, 2024 5pm to 6:30pm
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29 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
https://government.cornell.edu/political-theory-workshopSandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor in Politics at the New School for Social Research, will present "Anticolonial Democracy, Postcolonial Demography” at the Cornell Political Theory Workshop. Papers are circulated on an email list in advance and participants come prepared to discuss them.
Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. His research is in the history of modern political and social thought, especially the political theory of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial presents. His book, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony, is forthcoming in 2023 from the Cambridge University Press. It reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience.
Dr. Dasgupta received his PhD in political theory from Columbia University. Before the New School, he was postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy, and taught at Ashoka and Columbia University.
If you have questions or would be added to the Workshop’s email list, email Ewa Nizalowska, the graduate student coordinator for 2023-24, at en256 [at] cornell [dot] edu.
To find out more information, go to http://government.cornell.edu/political-theory-workshop.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Political Theory Workshop is generously supported by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of German Studies, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Jewish Studies Program, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Literatures in English, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Society for the Humanities.
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