Homi Bhabha: "On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of Culture"

Homi Bhabha presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, Bhabha introduced the concepts of hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence to the field.

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[donatafolla]

Interesting post. nice speech!

[donatafolla]

nice speech!

[donatafolla]

nice speech!

[nancymarie64]

The other faculty member is Judith Butler.

[pharmaplus87]

I should probably elaborate from my previous comment; I *like* this talk, and use Bhabha thoroughly in my own research. Put in context with these other comments, it looks like I'm just trying (and failing) to make fun of him like everyone else. It is really quite difficult for anyone today to talk about nations, culture, and stereotype without referring to him.

All the meanwhile, my question remains: who is this other faculty member who shares the "honor" of Bhabha's incoherence? 6:58 :)

[philomel1000]

I cannot believe the idiocy of some of these comments. Bhabha is a brilliant thinker and speaker and his discussion of writers and artists, from Benjamin to Eliot, is enormously illuminating. He speaks eloquently of the key issue of today - of how, when barbarism will emerge from within our societies, we may survive.

[pharmaplus87]

6:58 : Bhabha says he shares his "honor" of incoherence with another faculty member at UC Berkeley. Who is this? :)

[nrmala07]

Is there a transcript to this?

[mounir126]

I'm sorry to tell you that you didn't and you can't understand Homi Bhabha well till you a good educational background in philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, so then you might understand exactly his profound contribution in the these fields. Now he is considered to be the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies on which all new writings are based on his thoughts. So layman will not understand him

[IndecentTheology]

What are you guys rambling on about? if you don't like him, or don't understand him, don't use him in your work. but if you can understand him, he is an excellent resource for academic work and highly respected as well.

He's really not that hard to understand is he? what he's talking about? well, I've always liked his work, and its always fit in well with my research so...