Book Launch: Parasitic Empires by Bassam Sidiki

Join the Department of English and the South Asia Institute for a Book Launch of Parasitic Empires by Pakistani-American scholar, Bassam Sidiki, for International Education Week!

In Parasitic Empires, Sidiki documents historical and imaginary representations of infectious diseases such as the plague, venereal disease, Spanish flu, and Hansen’s disease in the long twentieth century, and how these diseases brought the British and US empires into simultaneous collaboration and competition across the Anglophone world.

The event will begin at 6pm with a reading, moderated conversation, and Q&A with the audience. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided.