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The Institute for the Humanities
at the University of Illinois at Chicago

presents


Bruce Robbins 
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
 

"The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality"
 
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. 

Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall,
701 South Morgan, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation– an evil state of affairs, but you acquiesce in it every time you step into a taxi or eat a plate of strawberries and cream.  The alternative is to throw the Empire overboard and reduce England to a cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly on herrings and potatoes.  That is the very last thing that any left-winger wants.” George Orwell wrote this in 1936.  What do we think of it now?

This event is part of the 2011-2012 Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities series.  Research in a range of disciplines has focused on institutional formations, legal structures, political rhetorics and social identities. This forum seeks to bring together scholars who approach these issues from a variety of perspectives. Meetings each year will be a mix of invited speakers, sessions focusing on UIC faculty work-in-progress, and discussions of agreed-upon texts.

Organized by Mark Canuel, English Department, and Stephen Engelmann, Political Science Department 

To request disability accommodations or for more information,
please contact
Linda Vavra, 312-996-6354.