MERLIT - associated researcher, Tola Ositelu will participate in the annual GAPS Conference: Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies 29 - 31 May 2025, at Bielefeld University, Germany.
The conference will bring together scholars from across the world and diverse disciplines to critically engage with the multiple crises engendered by late-stage Capitalism and rethink materialist analysis for the current moment. How can and should postcolonial literary and cultural studies respond, anew, in the 21st century? Is it prevented from formulating an effective analysis of capitalism by its own philosophical commitments? How should scholarship attentive to postcolonial power imbalances, interdependencies, historical relations respond to a globalised neoliberal capitalism whose cannibalising propensities (Fraser) have become undeniable yet whose “realism” still seems insurmountable (Fisher; Shonkwiler; La Berge)? How do we teach literature and culture in relationship to capitalism at university, and where might there be space for it in school curricula?
MERLIT-Associated Researcher, Tola Ositelu will present a conference paper on Problematising the Meritocratic 'Self' in Post-Migrant Narratives of Mobility and Care as part of the Care and Repair panel on Friday 30 May 2025.
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To read more about Tola's PhD research, Post-Migrant Narratives of Mobility and Care... click here.
