Jyotsna Singh & Amrita Sen: “The Global Renaissance and the Islamic Worlds”
Earlier this month, TCC affiliates Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University) and Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta) were hosted virtually by MEMOs and the Society for Renaissance Studies.
In a wide-ranging discussion that expanded from Singh’s pioneering work on Shakespeare in India to the shifting applicability of a term and concept like “the Global Renaissance”, Singh and Sen addressed the broader context of scholarship in Early Modern studies focusing on race, language, postcoloniality and the Global South.
The conversation was introduced by MEMOs Events Editor Aisha Hussain. MEMOs (Medieval and Early Modern Orients) is “an AHRC-funded decolonial project that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the early interactions between England and the Islamic Worlds”.
Forthcoming publications from the MEMOs team include the collection Materialising the East in Early Modern English Drama, co-edited by Hussain and Murat Öğütcü (Bloomsbury), and a special issue of the journal Renaissance Studies.