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Arts and Humanities Lecture: Sabra Webber, "Retrospective Light"

November 18, 2014
All Day
Faculty's Club Grand Lounge

Event Host: Arts and Humanities


Sabra Webber, comparative studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presents "Retrospective Light" as part of the 2014-2015 Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series.

British anthropologist Marilyn Strathern writes, “Indeed, there is sense in which significance inevitably lies in what things become, for it is the retrospective light that picks them out at all.” This lecture’s overarching theme is a consideration of some of what has been left out of that retrospective light over the past 250 years. What Homi Bhabha calls “spillage” is bound to occur as we categorize, compartmentalize, hierarchize and generalize, in effect, colonize the past. Recognizing a more intricate past and foregrounding points of rupture embedded in a Western-centric grand narrative enables a more productive relationship between past and present. Data are drawn from recent research in folkloristics, anthropology, ethnography and related disciplines.

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