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One of the paradoxes of our times is that despite improved rates of literacy and the ease of access to information via technology, the world is becoming increasingly misinformed about what is happening around us. People are now exposed to fake news and government propaganda. How can we fix this? Education should offer the tools to critically understand this complex globe and distinguish between truth and falsehood - but is it fulfilling its role? In our thought-provoking seminar, Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal, in conversation with Royal Holloway's Andrea Mammone, will discuss the current state of public education, the marketisation of academia, the promotion of uncritical thinking and the importance of concepts such as "race", "empire" and "power".
Priyamvada Gopal is a Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. She works on colonial and postcolonial literature, gender and feminism, critical race studies, and the politics and cultures of empire and globalisation. Published work includes "Literary Radicalism in India", "After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies", "The Indian English Novel", and the forthcoming "Insurgent Empire: Anticolonialism and British Dissent" (Verso). She has also contributed to The Hindu, Outlook India, India Today, Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman and The Guardian, BBC, NDTV (India), and Al-Jazeera.
Informazioni
Data: Mar 5 Giu 2018
Orario: Dalle 19:00 alle 20:30
Organizzato da : ICI London
Ingresso : Libero
Luogo:IIC London