Orientalism 2.0.: Developments in Orientalist Criticism in the 21st Century
You are warmly invited to participate in the 23rd meeting of the PLATFORM FOR POSTCOLONIAL READINGS on Orientalism 2.0.: Developments in Orientalist Criticism in the 21st Century. The meeting will be held online on Friday 26 May 2023, 8.30am-1pm (Online, CEST) and is organised with the support of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Guest organiser is Dr. Zhuyung Song (U Tongji/VUB).
Since the publication of Edward W. Said’s Orientalism (1978), the stereotyping of Eastern societies and people in Western discourse has continued to be a topic of academic debate. The enormous political and economic turnaround of China in recent decades in particular has prompted postcolonial and other scholars to take a renewed interest in Orientalist discourses, with new modes of Orientalism being distinguished, such as AntiOrientalism, Self-Orientalism, Sinological Orientalism, Digital Orientalism. This meeting of the Platform for Postcolonial Readings aims to discuss the new branches of Orientalist criticism that have developed especially in response to the changing dynamics between Eastern and Western cultural powers.
Registration deadline: 20 May 2023.
For more information, registration and the programme, click here.
Organisers:
Elisabeth Bekers
Liesbeth Minnaard
Zhuyung Song