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Soyinka’s dawn

Thursday, April 27, 2006

David Remnick interviewed Wole Soyinka (you can watch it for free until tonight and for $.99 afterwards) on Charlie Rose yesterday. Watch it.
Soyinka’s new memoir You Must Set Forth At Dawn arrived in the mail this afternoon and my work day has already gone to pieces. I will post a review this weekend on this [...]

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Ronapalooza - 1

Friday, April 21, 2006

Ronapalooza, Sepoy’s short hand name for the conference to honor Ronald Inden, begins this afternoon. From the conference site, here is a brief statement on the conference:
This conference to honor the scholarship and mentorship of Ronald B. Inden revolves around some of his central concerns and themes in history and religion of India: imperial formations [...]

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A tricky thing called memory

Thursday, April 20, 2006

What is an act of remembering?
Memory is tricky business. It doesn’t have an autonomous existence of its own, outside of us, the people who choose to remember. So memory is not a passive thing, but an active construct and it requires us to act. Our act of remembering is a subjective act and does not [...]

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