Associate Professor Harsha Ram will draw from his research project, City of Crossroads: Tiflis Modernism and the Russian-Georgian Encounter, an exploration of what happens to (historical) modernity and (literary/cultural) modernism in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, a city remote from the great metropolitan centers of Europe and the West. His work addresses colonialism and is particularly focused on problems of transculturation, hybridity, and the East/West divide.
Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.
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This event is part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative.