This colloquium explores the recent historiography of colonial institutions of control and governance, and inquires comparatively into the development of disciplinary practices in both metropole and colony. Focusing on how “colonial modernity” relied on forms of racialized control and discipline, this seminar moves beyond the critique of colonial ideology to ask what material practices helped to shape colonial governance. In particular we will explore how the body of the colonized became a critical locus through which ideologies of racial and cultural difference were deployed. 4 pts.