Live Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times)

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big
Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one
of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre
for the Humanities. Decolonisation the Curriculum Week. Join Homi
K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at
Harvard University, and Professor Margaret MacMillan (History
Faculty) for a discussion ‘On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times)'
Biographies: Homi K. Bhabha Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F.
Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is
one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial
studies. Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring colonial
and postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and
cosmopolitanism, among other themes. In 2012, he received the Padma
Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the
Indian government. Some of his works include Nation and Narration
and The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge
Classic in 2004 and has been translated into Korean, Spanish,
Italian, Arabic, Serbian, German and Portuguese. A selection of his
work was recently published in a Japanese volume. Harvard
University Press will publish his forthcoming book A Global
Measure, and Columbia University Press will publish his next book
The Right to Narrate. Margaret MacMillan Margaret MacMillan is an
emeritus Professor of International History and a former Warden of
St Antony’s College. Professor MacMillan researches and writes on
British imperial and international history of the late 19th and
20th centuries. Books include Women of the Raj, Peacemakers/Paris
1919, The Uses and Abuses of History and The War That Ended Peace.
Her forthcoming book War: How Conflict Shaped Us grew out the BBC’s
Reith lectures which she delivered in 2018.