“Euro-colonial Bare Life and The Power of Life and Death”

19 Apr 2011 - 16:00 / 19 Apr 2011 - 18:00

Victoria College
91 Charles Street West
Room 212

A Talk by Professor Mary Nyquist

Mary Nyquist teaches in the English Dept., the Literary Studies Program, and the Institute of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Nyquist has published influential studies of Milton and other early modern writers, including most recently an article on George Buchanan’s Jephthes in Comparative Literature and one on Hobbes in Representations. Her talk will draw on materials to appear in Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny and the Power of Life and Death, forthcoming from Chicago University Press.