{"id":2557,"date":"2021-08-25T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2557"},"modified":"2021-08-25T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:49:33","slug":"prof-b-venkat-mani","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/prof-b-venkat-mani\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. B. Venkat Mani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>B. Venkat Mani is a Professor of German and World Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a Senior Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity. He was born and brought up in India and migrated to the US as for graduate education. He researches and teaches German literature, literature of migrants and refugees, and world literature. He is the author, among others of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uipress.uiowa.edu\/books\/9781587295843\/cosmopolitical-claims\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cosmopolitical\u00a0Claims<\/em><\/a>(2007) and the multiple award winning\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fordhampress.com\/9780823273423\/recoding-world-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Recoding World Literature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2017). He has co-edited a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/A+Companion+to+World+Literature-p-9781118993187\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Companion to World Literature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Wiley\u00a0Blackwell 2020). \u00a0His work on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities with a focus on migration has also appeared in\u00a0\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/m.thewirehindi.com\/article\/republic-day-indian-constitution-and-we-the-people-of-india\/108559?utm=infinitescroll\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Wire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Hindi),\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2020\/05\/14\/inclusive-teaching-needed-help-combat-xenophobia-racism-and-discrimination-brought\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a>,<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telospress.com\/the-indian-farmers-movement-2020-21-part-ii-the-global-indian-diaspora-and-digital-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telos<\/a><em>, and\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/opinion\/empires-slay-publics-pay-the-global-refugee-crisis-unfolding-in-afghanistan-101629631940164.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hindustan\u00a0Times<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>His most recent article is:\u00a0&#8220;Empires Slay, Publics Pay: The Global Refugee Crisis Unfolding in Afghanistan,\u201d <em>Hindustan Times <\/em>(Aug 22, 2021):\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/opinion\/empires-slay-publics-pay-the-global-refugee-crisis-unfolding-in-afghanistan-101629631940164.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/opinion\/empires-slay-publics-pay-the-global-refugee-crisis-unfolding-in-afghanistan-101629631940164.html<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2558,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2557","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"","speaker_last_name":"","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2557\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}