Philip Kaisary is the 2023–25 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor in Cultural Mediations and an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University. He works in Caribbean and Latin American studies; Marxist literary and cultural theory; human rights; critical social theory; ‘world-literature’; ‘Law, Culture, and the Humanities’; and ‘Law and Literature’. His publications include From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary (SUNY Press, 2024) and The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints (University of Virginia Press, 2014). Born within the sound of the Bow Bells in London, he now lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Centre for Critical Legal Studies, Lunchtime Seminar Series, School of Law, University of Warwick, March 6, 2024.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/newsandevents/events/?calendarItem=8a1785d78c58b3f9018c5e63776a3525
Postcolonial and World Literatures Research Seminar Series, Wadham College, Oxford University, March 7, 2024.
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f7326874-4a94-4744-8530-4c9000bff645/
School of Media, Arts, and Humanities, Sussex University, March 13, 2024.
Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge University, March 14, 2024.
I am thrilled to announce that Auritro Majumder will deliver the 2024 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor guest lecture. 5:30pm, March 20, 2024, Patterson Hall 303, Carleton University. Auritro’s lecture is titled: “(Third) World Literature and Decolonization: Humanist Internationalism and Contemporary Literary Studies”.
Sarah Brouillette and I will be hosting Anna Kornbluh this spring! Anna will deliver this year’s Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations. Anna will be speaking about her new book, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism. 4:00pm, April 18, 2024, Patterson Hall 303, Carleton University.