A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
Date:
Thursday 28 August
Time:
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Venue:
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab,
66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
(enter via Regents St)
What does the concept of tyranny offer to the analysis of populist authoritarianism, oligarchy and autocracy? In this lecture, I suggest that the present talk about tyranny is at once anachronistic and prescient, and that this odd temporality—and the affective and aesthetic forms that accompany it—is appropriate to a form of late capitalism which is also neo-feudal or neo-Medieval.
Speaker Bio
Rosalind Morris is an award-winning anthropologist, cultural critic and media theorist, and documentarist, who has taught at Columbia University, where she is Professor of Anthropology, for more than 30 years. Her most recent books are Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (Columbia 2025) and For Lack of a Dictionary: poems (Fordham, 2025).