The Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia is organizing its Third Young Researchers Conference JMI titled ‘Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from the Global South’. The Keynote Speech will be given by Prof. Sam Durrant on “Whose Memory is it anyway? Animism, Literature and the Dis-enclosure of Memory/Trauma Studies”.

Dr Sam Durrant is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Leeds. He is the author of ‘Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning’ (2004) the (co-) editor of numerous publications on postcolonial literature and refugee studies. His most recent work in trauma studies is “Cosmological Trauma in Postcolonial Literature,” co-authored with Ryan Topper for “The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma” (2020). He currently runs a webinar series on animism https://animistengagements.wordpress.com/ and is working on a book currently entitled “Planetary Identifications: Animism, Mimesis and Modernity”.