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SLLM, the Faculty of Humanities, IFAS and WiSER invite you to a two day colloquium on Textual Commodities in Empire10th and 11th June 2013This international colloquium explores themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives.WiSER Seminar Room6th Floor, Richard Ward Building,East Campus, Wits UniversityProgramme:Day 1: Monday June 109.00-9.15: Welcome and opening remarks9.15-10.45Session 1: Distant Reading – Backwards, Forwards and Sideways Ian Henderson, King’s College, University of London, Towards a History of Reading BackwardsElaine Freedgood, NYU, Hetero-OntologicalityDiscussant: Sarah Nuttall11.15-13.00Session 3: Paper empiresSarah Gundry, King’s College London, ‘Homeward Bound’: Periodicity and the Cape Monthly MagazineIsabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Imperial CommonsFariha Shaikh, King’s College,‘An Imagined Community’? The Social Life of Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Shipboard NewspapersDiscussant: Ashlee NeserLUNCH: 13.00-14.0014.00-16.00Session 2: Secondhand empires, imperial jumbleBrenda Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand, The afterlives of the Zulu Empire: From the oral through the written to popular performanceKhwezi Mkhize, University of Pennsylvania, Dangerous Liaisons: Making Affiliations and Black Empire in early Twentieth Century South AfricaAchal Prabhala (Independent scholar, Bangalore), Word domination: The Enduring Legacy of the Cultural Cold War in India and AfricaDiscussant: Sharad Chari Day 2: Tuesday June 119.00-10.30Session 1: Cutting Writing and ImageSandra Young, University of Cape Town, Visual literacy and imperialist logic: the circulation of woodcut images of ‘new world’ peoples in the sixteenth centuryAdrien Delmas, IFAS, The history of writing in the early modern period through the reception of the Codex MendozaDiscussant: Cynthia Kros11.00-13.00Session 2: Affect, Pedagogy, DistanceTanya Agathocleous, Hunter College, CUNY, Criticism on Trial: Criminalizing Affect at the Wilde trials and the trial of the BangavasiAbhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, The Calcutta School-Book Society and the Production of KnowledgeDevleena Ghosh, UTS, Burma-Bengal Crossings: Representations of Liminalities in Bengali literature of the pre-independence eraDiscussant: Dilip MenonLUNCH: 13.00-14.0014.00-15.00Session 3: Closing CommentsIsabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall, Tanya Agothocleous&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;