Humanities on the Hill: Homi K. Bhabha in Conversation with William Egginton

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Homi K. Bhabha, professor of the humanities in the English Department and Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University, will be in conversation with Johns Hopkins Professor William Egginton on "The Winter of our Discontent: Language, Politics, and Polarity." This event is part of the Humanities on the Hill series.

Homi K. Bhabha served as the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, founding director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, and in the inaugural position of senior adviser to the president and provost of Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. His works include The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic, and the edited volume Nation and Narration. Bhabha has also written about contemporary art for Artforum and essays on the work of William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Taryn Simon, and Matthew Barney, among others. With the support of the Volkswagen and Mellon Foundations, Bhabha has led a research project on the global humanities. He is a corresponding fellow at The British Academy, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and critic-in-residence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1997 he was profiled by Newsweek as one of "100 Americans for the Next Century." He holds honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Stellenbosch University. He has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize and the Government of India's Padma Bhushan Presidential Award in the field of literature and education, and he has spoken at the Vatican.