Called 鈥渞emarkable鈥 and 鈥渟ometimes hilarious鈥, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), edited by 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Honor Ford-Smith, will launch Monday. Readings of short excerpts of each of the three plays, considered an intertwining memory, violence, creativity, belonging and dispossession during a ten-year period in Jamaica, will take place June 6 at 7pm, […]
Although Rabindranath Tagore was a celebrated poet during his time 鈥 the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913 鈥 and a prominent figure in India鈥檚 struggle for independence and social justice, he is not well known outside of India today. With the 150th anniversary of his birth coming up this […]
Six 91亚色 students聽have won聽five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]