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Retrospective Light - Sabra Webber

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November 18, 2014
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
OSU Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

Inaugural Lecture
Organized by the Division of Arts & Humanities
SABRA WEBBER
Retrospective Light

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.

Tuesday, November 18 2014
5:00PM-6:30PM
(Reception to follow)
OSU Faculty Club, Grand Lounge