War and Peace | Twentieth-Century Responses from the Global South

War and Peace: Twentieth-Century Responses from the Global South

Reading Group 1

Part of TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities

This event is free and all are welcome. 

The List of Readings:

1. Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Crisis in Civilization’ (1941)
2. Marcus Garvey, ‘Advice of the Negro to the Peace Conference’ (1918)
3. Ho Chi Minh, ‘The Rightful Demands of the Anamite (Vietnamese) People’ (1919)
4. Paulette Nardal, ‘From an Electoral Point of View’ (1945)
5. Paulette Nardal, ‘Facing History’ (1946)

Follow the link to the list.

This is a small, cohesive, and welcoming reading group interested in foregrounding a serious and sophisticated critique of war by revisiting twentieth-century responses to the increasing civilianization of military conflict from the ‘global south’ and aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary conversations within the humanities.

To join our mailing list or other queries, please contact any of the convenors:

Suchintan Das - DPhil candidate, Faculty of History (suchintan.das@merton.ox.ac.uk)

Urvi Khaitan - DPhil candidate, Faculty of History (urvi.khaitan@history.ox.ac.uk)

Madhurima Sen - DPhil candidate, Faculty of English (madhurima.sen@hertford.ox.ac.uk)

War and Peace: Twentieth-Century Responses from the Global South Project is part of the TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities