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Unsettled: Rereading Toxicity After Bhopal

Feb 27, 2024 12:00 pm

108 Coble Hall

Lecture

Sponsor: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Oh Assistant Professor of English UIUC
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Originating Calendar: Middle East Events; This talk revisits the Bhopal gas explosion of 1984 to consider the plural ways in which the Indian state has been imagined in its wake and to offer an example of what my larger book project, Reading Better States, calls a utopian method of reading. Bhopal has been dubbed the world’s worst industrial disaster and it is also a notorious example of environmental, corporate,

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