After the Postcolonial: The Smuts Lecture Series

The Managers, in association with Polity, fund a biennial series of 3-4 lectures offered by a distinguished practitioner, which address topics of interest in Commonwealth Studies. The series aims to extend and rethink the postcolonial in a number of ways: by cirtically following new theoretical iterations, by extending its applications beyond the south and by revisiting the archive of the commonwealth, by elaborating a new ecumene for global dialogue and comparison, by revisiting the history of ideas for the global present. The fixed point is the critical advancement of post-colonial thinking and its applications, north and south.

A book series is drawn from these lectures and is published by Polity under the title 'After the Postcolonial'.  

The lectures are organised in conjunction with a department or faculty in such a way as to be integrated into that institution's own teaching plans.