Making History Podcast: The Blog

Writing in the Age of Globalization:
A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra and Laila Lalami
Moderated by Kavita Philip
Time and Place: April 20, 1:30-3:00, Humanities Instructional Building Rm 135, UC Irvine
Sponsored by UCI’s International Center for Writing and Translation
Co-sponsors: UCI’s History Department, Working Group in African and Middle Eastern Studies, and Bookstore
(Open to all interested members of the university and larger community; books will be available for sale and signing.)

Laila Lalami is the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits, and a novel, Secret Son, which is coming out this month. An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, she has been an active blogger (writing as “The Moorish Girl”) and has contributed to the Nation, the Boston Review, and other periodicals.

Pankaj Mishra is the author of The Romantics: A Novel (a novel) and author or editor of several other books, including Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond. He is a regular contributor to both the New York Review of Books and London Review of Books, and he has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, and many other newspapers and magazines.

Kavita Philip is Director of UCI’s Critical Theory Institute and an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies. She is the author of Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources, and Modernity in Colonial South India and co-editor of several other books, including Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. She is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Critical Theory Institute.