Objectives
In the course of this seminar, you will
- engage yourself with postcolonial theory on global health, biocapitalism, pharmocracy, stratified healthcare, and, more generally, with postcolonial medical humanities.
- explore postcolonial perspectives on biotech-industries and global inequality, especially with regard to phenomena such as surrogacy, organ donation, pharmaceutical testing and patent trading.
- analyse how these issues are negotiated in three Anglophone Indian literary texts.
- discuss issues such as re-biologisation, species thinking and new universalisms in contemporary thinking and literary responses.
- listen to two international guest lectures and participate in the opening of an international workshop.
- develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.