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Colonial Histories of the Present
11 February 2026, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
This transnational collaboration joins the University College London and Yale University in a collective study of the longue durée of colonial racial capitalism and its expression in the contemporary moment in which cruel austerity measures deepen economic dispossession and authoritarian states subject the poor, unhoused, and most vulnerable to state violence, ethnonationalism, incarceration, and death.
This event is free.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation
Please register here for Lisa Lowe's lecture, "Colonial Histories of the Present," on February 11th, 2026, at 12:00pm EST/5:00pm BST. This lecture is the second event in the yearlong series, Racisms and Colonialisms in the Longue Durée.
All events throughout the academic year will be online. A Zoom link will be sent out prior to and day of the event. For more information, please visit racismsandcolonialisms.com.
About the Speaker
Lisa Lowe
Lisa Lowe is a Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and affiliate faculty member of programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism, she is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015), and the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press, 1997) and New Questions, New Formations: Asian American Studies, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997).
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