Dipesh Chakrabarty in conversation with Meera Ashar and Frank Bongiorno

ANU School of History's Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno will be speaking at The Public Life of History, presented by the School of Culture, History & Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Thursday 18 August 6:00pm – 7.30pm (light refreshments from 6:00pm to 6:30pm)

Speakers

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Dr Meera Ashar
Lecturer, ANU
Dr Frank Bongiorno
Associate Professor, ANU

Location

Sir Roland Wilson Theatre, Sir Roland Wilson Building #120,
120 McCoy Circuit, ANU

Registration required: Eventbrite

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome, but please register via eventbrite for catering purposes.

Professor Chakrabarty, along with Dr Ashar and Dr Bongiorno, reflects on the public life of history in Asia and Australia and how historians participate in debates about the past. Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and the Deans’ Distinguished Visitor at the College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU. His numerous publications include The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (Chicago, 2015); Rethinking Working- Class History: Bengal 1890–1940 (Princeton, 1989, 2000); Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000; second edition, 2008); Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (Chicago, 2002). He is currently working on two books, provisionally entitled The Climate of History and History and the Time of the Present.

Dr Meera Ashar is Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University and Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Institute (SARI). She has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and has been an LM Singhvi Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie at the intersection of history, political theory and literary studies.

Dr Frank Bongiorno is Associate Professor in History in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and has worked previously at Griffith University, the University of New England and King’s College London. His most recent books are The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012) and The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015).