Diagne is a philosopher based at Columbia University. His talk will reflect on a new co-authored dialogue between himself and the Africanist anthropologist Jean-Loup Amselle, In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (2020).
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a series of online seminars over the next few months. These talks will draw on political and aesthetic archives of emancipatory projects of the global south. They will examine radical traditions and ideas of expansive citizenship that have emerged in the colonial and postcolonial modern. Particular focus will be on idioms of difference, which define insider and outsider, majority and minority, how these emerged, were negotiated and transcended.
SAST (GMT+2)
Ethiopia @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3)
Ghana @ 13:00 GMT (UTC+0)
Uganda @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3)
Lebanon @ 16:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Barbados @ 09:00 AST (UTC- 4)
US East Coast @ 09:00 EDT (UTC-4)
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Zandi Sherman (Rutgers) makes a point about her paper at the 2020 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop. The workshop, Rethinking Resilience, was originally scheduled to take place in Makhanda, South Africa in March. After the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, it was rescheduled as a virtual Zoom workshop held in October. Screenshot by Corinne A. Kratz.
In line with protocols introduced by government towards the prevention and containment of the COVID-19 virus, the CHR suspended its public events, seminars, and general fellowship program until further notice. We wish CHR fellows, students, artists, colleagues and friends, as well as our partners and funders in South Africa and across the world much strength and compassion in these difficult times.