11 May 2023

Homi K Bhabha speaks on "Death-life and the Threshold of a 'New Humanism'" at SOAS

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Date: 11 May 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: SOAS University of London
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Event type: Lecture & Event highlights

About this event

At the third event of a lecture series celebrating the Department of Politics and International Studies' 60th anniversary, Professor Homi K Bhabha of Harvard University will deliver a lecture entitled "Death-life and the Threshold of a 'New Humanism'".

This is part of the series "60 Years of Challenging Knowledges, 1962–2022".

Professor Bhabha is the Anne F Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

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