2008
marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism.
Said’s most influential and controversial workhas inspired countless
appropriations and rebuttals from scholars around the globe, and it continues
to shape the ways in which literary studies, Middle East studies, East and
South Asian studies, anthropology, history, politics, and related disciplines
are conceptualised and practised. The symposium will address the book’s interdisciplinary
legacy and its relevance for contemporary scholarship. The date of the
symposium would have been Said’s 73rd birthday.
Keynote speakers:
Peter Gran Robert Irwin
Supported by:
The Centre for Applied Human Rights, the Roberts Fund, the Centre
for Modern Studies, and the Institute
for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York
