Fall 2011
Endeavors Talk @ African American Studies, Yale University
Speaker:
Stephan Palmié
Yale Respondents:
Kamari M. Clarke & Jafari S. Allen
Presentation Title:
"The Ejamba on North Fairmount Avenue, the Wizard of Menlo Park and the Dialectics of Ensoniment: As Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask"
Date: Tuesday, November 1
Time: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: Yale University - African American Studies, 81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Room 201, New Haven CT
Bios
Stephan Palmié is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He conducts ethnographic and historical research on Afro-Caribbean cultures, with an emphasis on Afro-Cuban religious formations and their relations to the history and cultures of a wider Atlantic world. His other interests include practices of historical representation and knowledge production, systems of slavery and unfree labor, constructions of race and ethnicity, conceptions of embodiment and moral personhood, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of food and cuisine.
Kamari M. Clarke is professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is the Chair of the Yale Council on African Studies (with a courtesy appointment in (African American Studies) and is a collaborative partner of the distinguished Leadership Enterprise for African Development (LEAD) – a collaborative project between Harvard and Yale Universities and the Institute for Research on African Women, Children and Culture (IRAWCC) that seeks to deepen the process of reform and revitalization in African countries by strengthening leadership and governance capacity in the public, business, and civil society sectors.
Jafari Sinclaire Allen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University. Allen works at the intersections of [queer] sexuality, gender and blackness in Cuba, the US, and transnationally. He teaches courses on the cultural politics of race, sexuality and gender in Black diasporas; Black feminist and queer theory; critical cultural studies; ethnographic methodology and writing; subjectivity, consciousness and resistance; Cuba and the Caribbean.
SPRING 2011
What is Caribbean Studies:
Prisms, Paradigms and Practices
An International Symposium
Registration:
We will implement a form of registration because our space is very limited. When registering please indicate whether you will attend one or both sessions of the symposium. Please email us at the following address to register: whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Sponsors:
Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund (Macmillan Center); the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant; Whitney Humanities Center; African American Studies; the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization; and Small Axe Journal.
Co-Convenors:
Hazel V. Carby
Professor, Departments of African American Studies and American Studies
Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization
Yale University
Kamari M. Clarke
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director of the Yale Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis
Yale University
David Scott
Professor, Deparment of Anthropology
Editor of Small Axe & Director of Small Axe Project
Columbia University
Symposium Background & Mission:
'What is Caribbean Studies' is a two-day symposium that builds upon a preliminary international workshop held at Yale in Fall 2009 entitled “New Directions in Caribbean Studies.” Co-sponsored by Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization, Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, and African American Studies, this workshop set the agenda for the articulation of a number of key questions that are central to this symposium. The mission of ‘What is Caribbean Studies: Prisms, Paradigms, and Practices’ is to serve as a critical forum for participants to exchange ideas about the significance of Caribbean Studies in our transnational world and to ask what constitutes the ‘Caribbean’ in Caribbean Studies? To what extent do the divergent locations, subjectivities, and traumas captured by the term Caribbean actually render a fixed notion of the Caribbean impossible? What is gained or missed by applying concepts such as empire,transnationalism, globalization, and neoliberalism to the locations historically imagined as the Caribbean? In answering these questions our focus will be on the national and transnational networks and linkages that have come to constitute the Caribbean beyond its geography and its political and subject formations.
Speakers:
Speakers will include artists and scholars such as David Scott (Columbia University), Marlon James (Macalaster College), Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London), Jorge Giovanetti (University of Puerto Rico), among others. Faculty from Yale University such as Caryl Phillips, Jafari Allen, Terri Francis, among others will serve as respondents.
Date, Location & Time:
Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Friday, April 1: 9am to 5:30
Saturday, April 2: 9am to 4pm
Registration:
We will implement a form of registration because our space is very limited. When registering please indicate whether you will attend one or both sessions of the symposium. Please email us at the following address to register: whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Symposium Program
What is Caribbean Studies (PDF version for download)
For more information please email:
whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
FALL 2010
Pioneering the History of Black Britain:
A Conference in Honor of James Walvin
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Time: See Schedule Below
Location: Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Yale University
Sponsors: Gilder Lehrman Center, the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale, the European Studies Council, the British Studies Program, and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund
This one-day conference is held in honor of James Walvin, one of the great scholars of the Transatlantic slave trade, and a pioneer in the unearthing the history of Black Britain. Walvin's extensive career has included work at universities in Barbados, Australia, Britain, Africa, and here at Yale, where he has held various fellowships, including a recent one at the Yale Center for British Art. Additionally, Jim Walvin was the British government advisor for the abolition celebrations in 2007, and he has recently been instrumental in developing a collaborative seminar with the Gilder Lehrman Center for educators in the U.S. the U.K, and West Africa to explore the history of the Middle Passage. This conference will bring together scholars from across the U.S., Britain, and the Caribbean to celebrate Walvin's considerable work in the field.
SCHEDULE
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks, David W. Blight, Yale University
9:45- 10:00 a.m. Conference Overview, Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Panel 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade
David Richardson, University of Hull
Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University
Stephanie Smallwood, University of Washington, Seattle
Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 - 3:15 p.m. Panel 2: The Diasporan Legacy of the Slave Trade
Madge Dresser, University of the West of England
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Coffee break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Panel 3: Race and Sport
Ben Carrington, University of Texas, Austin
Aviston Downes, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Response: James Walvin, University of York
Moderator: Caryl Phillips, Yale University
5:15 - 5:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks
David W. Blight, Yale University
SPRING 2010
TRAJECTORIES OF THE POLITICAL RINGTONE: HUGO CHAVEZ AND THE REFERENDUM OF 2007
Sumanth Gopinath,
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota
DATE: February 23
TIME: 4:30
LOCATION: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
SLOW VIOLENCE, NEOLIBERALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PICARESQUE
Rob Nixon,
Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DATE: April 6
TIME: 4:30pm
LOCATION: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
TRACING DOLLARS, MAPPING COLONIAL FEMINISM: AMERICA FUNDS WOMEN’S ‘DEMOCRACY’ TRAINING IN IRAQ
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Adult Education and Counseling,
University of Toronto
DATE: April 20
TIME: 4:30pm
LOCATION: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
FALL 2009
“IN THE FALLING SNOW”: AN EVENING WITH CARYL PHILLIPS
Co-sponsored by the IRGG and Labyrinth Books
Moderated by Professor Hazel Carby
DATE: OCTOBER 12
TIME: 5:30pm
LOCATION: LABYRINTH BOOKS, 290 York St., New Haven
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Co-sponsored by the IRGG, the Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Dorothy Clarke Kemf Memorial Fund
KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR DAVID SCOTT
DATE: NOVEMBER 5
TIME: 4:30pm
LOCATION: 10 Sachem St, Room 105
“BLONDE ROOTS”: AN EVENING WITH BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Moderated by Caryl Phillips, Professor of English at Yale University
DATE: NOVEMBER 16
TIME: 5:30pm
LOCATION: LABYRINTH BOOKS, 290 York St., New Haven
AN EVENING WITH THOMAS GLAVE
Co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Moderated by Professor Hazel Carby
DATE: DECEMBER 7
TIME: 5:30pm
LOCATION: LABYRINTH BOOKS, 290 YORK St. New Haven
Fall 2008
Statistics, Sex and Slavery: Women in British Colonial Slave Societies
JENNIFER MORGAN
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Date: September 15, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
The Other Skin: Touch, Capitalism, and Slavery in Enlightenment America
MARK SMITH
Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina
Date: September 22, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
The Noisettes: Black Female Singers and Sonic Afro-Feminist Praxis
DAPHNE BROOKS
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Princeton University
Date: September 29, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
The Human Project: Bodily Dystopias and the Utopics of Race
JAYNA BROWN
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Date: October 6, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
A Conversation with Jayna Brown
This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Date: October 6, 2008
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven
Love for the Race: Trans-National Ideality from the Age of the New Negro to Blaxploitation
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
IVY WILSON
Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University
Date: October 13, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Axis Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, the Science of the Word, and More Humanly Workable Geographies--A Working Paper
KATHERINE McKITTRICK
Professor of Women's Studies, Queens University (Canada)
Date: October 20, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Abstracts of Intimacy
DARBY ENGLISH
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Date: October 27, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Ideogrammatics as Physiognomy
ALEXANDER WEHELIYE
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Date: November 3, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Dust Wheel in the Ruins: Katherine Dunham's A Touch of Innocence
ANTHONY FOY
Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture (2008-2009) & Assistant Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore
Date: November 10, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
An Exceptional Empire: Race and War in US Globalism
NIKHIL PAL SINGH
Family Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle
Date: November 17, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Rivers of Blood: Raciality, Violence, and the Possibility of Global Justice
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Date: December 1, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
At the Limits of "Diaspora"? Indian Muslims in New Orleans and Harlem, 1890-1950
VIVEK BALD
Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: December 8, 2008
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Spring 2008
Bodies, Bodies Everywhere: Exemplary Spectacularity as Slavery's Legacy in Jamaica
DEBORAH THOMAS
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Thomas works on questions concerning nationalism; globalization; race and gender; labor migration; transnationalism and diaspora; cultural politics; performance; violence and the transformation of space; culture and political Economy; popular culture; and the Caribbean.
Date: February 20th
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Ethnicity Inc.
JOHN L. COMAROFF
Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Science, University of Chicago
Professor Comaroff researches southern Africa, concentrating on the Tswana peoples. His interests include coloniality and postcoloniality, modernity, neoliberalism, social theory, and the history of consciousness; in politics, law, and historical anthropology.
Date: April 9
Time: 4:30
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Plantation to the Prison:
Incarceration and U.S. Culture
Sponsors:
Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization; Marxist and Cultural Theory Working Group, Initiative on Labor and Culture
Featured speakers will include Ruthie Gilmore, Dylan Rodriguez, and Colin (Joan) Dayan
Date: Saturday April 12
Time: TBA
Location: Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Fall 2007
Shifting the Scene of the Crime:
Sodomy and the History of Rape
Stephen Robertson, History, University of Sydney
This event is sponsored by Yale's Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
Date: September 24
Time: 5:00pm
Location: HGS 211
Stephen Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney and the author of Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 (UNC, 2005).
The Zong, Abolition and Public Sensibility
James Walvin, University of York
Date: October 15, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
James Walvin, Professor at the Center for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. For over thirty years Professor Walvin’s studies of modern social history and his engagements with the history of black slavery and the Atlantic slave trade have invigorated our understanding of the Atlantic world.
The Trader, the Owner, the Slave
A Conversation between Caryl Phillips and James Walvin
This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Date: October 15, 2007
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven
In this event James Walvin and Caryl Phillips will engage James Walvin's latest book, The Trader, the Owner, the Slave.
Testimonial Event with Mak Dal Lee
Date: Linsley-Chittenden Hall (LC), Rm. 101
Time: 5:30
Location: Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Come hear the testimony of
Grandmother Mak Dal Lee,
a survivor of the
Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System
Sponsored by the American Studies Program, Asian American Cultural Center, Calhoun College, Council on East Asian Studies, Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization, KASY: Korean American Students of Yale, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Schell Human Rights Center at Yale Law School, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, and the World Performance Project.
For any questions, contact elizabeth.son@yale.edu.
Cover-Up:
French Gender Equality and the Islamic Headscarf
Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
This event is sponsored by Yale's Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
Date: October 31, 2007
Time: 5:00pm
Location: HGS 211
Joan W. Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and the author of numerous influential books and essays, including Gender and the Politics of History (1988), Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), and Parité! Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005). Her new book, The Politics of the Veil, will be published by Princeton University Press at the end of October. Her talk will examine the ways French arguments about the inassimilability of Muslims gained force through comparisons between French and Islamic organizations of gender and sexuality.
Reconstructing Womanhood:
A Symposium Honoring Hazel V. Carby
Date: Friday, November 2, 2007
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
Columbia University
Time: Opening Remarks, 9:30am
List of Speakers
Hazel Carby, Yale University
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY Graduate Center
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
Conference Schedule
9:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
**Coffee available to participants
10:00am
“Paranoid Empire, Masculinities and Other War Zones”
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:15am
“The Stranger’s Work: Desire, Intimacy, Violence, and (Black) Cultural Restoration”
Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY- Graduate Center
12:30
Lunch Break
2:00pm
"Reading and Reckoning Histories of Loss"
Lisa Lowe, UC-San Diego/Yale University (in-residence)
** Coffee available to participants
3:15pm
"Reconstructing Manhood; or the Drag of Black Masculinity"
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
(Introduction/Moderator: Tina Campt, Duke University)
4:30pm
Keynote Address: "Lost (and Found?) in Translation"
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
6:00pm
Reception/Dinner Buffet
Sponsors:
The symposium has been made possible by the generous funding of the following institutional partners: Yale University, the Office of the Provost; Barnard Center for Research on Women; Institute for Research on Women and Gender,Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard College; Institute for Research on African American Studies, Columbia University; Women's Studies Program, Duke University; and Columbia University Libraries.
Listening to the Image:
Diaspora, Photography and the Making of Black Britain
Tina Campt, Duke University
Date: November 7, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Tina M. Campt is Associate Professor of Women's Studies, History and German at Duke University, and she is presently a William S. Vaughn Fellow at the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Ctr., Vanderbilt University.
Spring 2007
Rinaldo Walcott, Lecture
Date: January 31, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
Rinaldo Walcott is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education,where he also holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies, at the University of Toronto. His most recent scholarship branches out from black studies to engage with other forms of marginalized difference in the Canadian nation making project. This new project, "Other Canadians and the Re-making of the Nation," will result in the "Other Canadians Database: Culture Re-making the Nation" which will consist of film and video made by "Other Canadians" that directly confronts the nation making project. He is the author of Black Like Who:? Writing Black Canada (Insomniac Press, 1997) and the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac Press, 2000). He was a member of the former Borderlines editorial collective and a former editorial board member of Fuse Magazine.
Lessons in Being Gay:
Queer Encounters & Gay Prison Activism
Regina Kunzel, Lecture
This event is sponsored by Yale University's
Research Initiative on the History of Sexual Identities
Date: February 5
Time: 5-6:30pm
Location: 320 York Stree, Room 211
Regina Kunzel is Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr. Professor of History at Williams College. In the 1970's and 1980's gay and lesbian activists advocated on behalf of gay prisoners, while themselves organized to claim their rights to sexual protection and expression. By exploring the understandings, misunderstandings, and awkward alliances forged between queer prison insiders and outsiders, Professor Kunzel's talk illuminates the contours of new gay norms in the making.
What the Deejay Said:
A Critique from the Street!
Conversation between Dr. William Henry & Michael Veal
This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Date: February 23,
Time: 5:30pm to 6pm
Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven
Dr. William Henry's What the Deejay Said: A Critique from the Street! (prefaced by Paul Gilroy) engages Jamaican cultural politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Combining autobiographical reflection with the lyricism of the many pioneers who 'chatted' on Reggae Sound Systems, What the Deejay Said represents the first attempt by a Reggae Dancehall Deejay to grapple with the key role Jamaican culture played in shaping the black cultural politics of the 1970s and 1980s in the UK. As Henry's book upends what 'experts' on race said about black youth during this period, the text thoughtfully documents a 'hidden history' of the black experience in Britain, one that demonstrates the myriad ways black youth laid the foundations for transcending racism in their struggle against it.
Lose Your Mother:
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Conversation between Saidiya Hartman & Hazel Carby
This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Date: February 28, 2007
Time: 4:30pm to 6pm
Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven
Saidiya Hartman is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. Her book Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford UP, 1997) examines the intersections of enslavement, gender, desire, and the making of liberal reason in the United States. Her forthcoming book Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) confronts the disturbing relationships among memory, representation, and narrative. Weaving her own biography into an imaginative historical construction, she explores and evokes the non-spaces of black experience—the experience through which the African captive became a slave, became a non-person, became alienated from personhood.
Asylum and its Indignities
Ranjana Khanna, Public Lecture
Date: March 7, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 101
Ranjana Khanna is Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the Program in Literature at Duke University. She is also an affiliate in Women's Studies. Her work focuses on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the present (Forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2006.) Her current book manuscript in progress is called Asylum: The Concept and the Practice. She is presently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
A Celebration of Michael Veal and Sarah Weiss's New Publications in the Field of Ethnomusicology
Date: April 11, 2007
Time: 530pm
Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven
Please join us for a book party to celebrate the publication of two new music titles by Yale ethnomusicologists Michael Veal and Sarah Weiss. In Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, Michael Veal chronicles dub's development and offers the first thorough analysis of the music itself. Moreover, he examines dub's social significance in Jamaican culture and explores the "dub revolution" that has crossed musical and cultural boundaries for over thirty years, influencing a wide variety of musical genres around the globe. Paul Gilroy notes, "Veal's wise volume has rescued Reggae music at last from the tentacles of exoticism. This is a glorious affirmation of dub's rebel, Creole spirit."
Sarah Weiss's new book is Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java. This study is the first large-scale treatment of gender issues in Indonesian music. Integrating the analysis of gender and music with that of aesthetics, this study of the musical synergy between the puppeteer and his female accompanist describes the ways in which shifting gender constructions have helped to shape and change Central Javanese music and theatre performance practice while throwing new light on the history of Javanese gender relations and culture, as well as on the aesthetics of Central Javanese shadow-puppet theatre.
African Writers in America
Date: April 13, 2007
Time: 7pm
Location: AfroAmerican Cultural Center, 211 Park St, New Haven
A Politics of Entanglement:
Being in Johannesburg
Sarah Nuttall
Date: April 18, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Location: LC 102
Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is editor of Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2006). And, she is co-editor of Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia (Routledge, 1996); Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (OUP, 1998); Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies (OUP, 2000); Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis (Public Culture special issue , October 2004); and author of a forthcoming volume of essays on South African Literatures.
South Africa: The Transnational Nation?
Achille Mbembe
Date: April 25, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Location: LC 102
Achille Mbembe is Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and Senior Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He has published widely on African history and politics. He is author of La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (Paris, Karthala, 1996); On the Postcolony (California UP, 2001); and he is co-editor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis (Public Culture special issue, October 2004).
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