Brown-India Initiative and the Department of English present Isabel Hofmeyr: "Gandhi's Printing Press"

Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will present a talk entitled "Gandhi's Printing Press" on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 5:30 pm in the Department of English, 70 Brown Street, Room 315. Her talk will be taken from her new book, Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading (Harvard, 2013), which discusses Mahatma Gandhi's practices of reading, writing, and publishing, situating them in both his Indian nationalist career and his early South African context.

This event is sponsored by the Department of English and the Brown-India Initiative and is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities.

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