Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence
An initiative of Northwestern University's Critical Theory Cluster an the ICCTP (International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
November 30 to December 3, 2018. All events will be held in the John Evans Alumni Center, Northwester University, unless otherwise noted in the event's program.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, READINGS, AND TO SIGN UP, CONTACT DAVID JOHNSON AT DAVIDJOHNSON2013@U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU.
Monday, December 3
9-10.30am Workshop: Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University) and Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) Discussion of Al-Saji’s “Glued to the Image: Fanon and Muslim Racialization through Works of Art,” and Maldonado- Torres’s “On Metaphysical Catastrophe, Post-Continental Thought, and the Decolonial Turn” Chair: Rachel Riedl (Director, African Studies Program)
11am-12.30pm Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University) “Fanonian Meditations, the Decolonial Turn, and the Spirit of Bandung” Chair: Doris Garraway (French & Italian) Respondent: Alia Al-Saji (McGill University)
12.30-1pm Location: Harris Hall 108 Roundtable Lunch
1-3pm Location: Harris Hall 108 Concluding Lunchtime Roundtable: Fanon After Fanon Sam Aranke, “On National Culture” (The Muscular Tension of Subjects Moving Towards Decolonization) Yala Kisukidi, “The Death of Lumumba” (Fanon and Césaire on the Death of Lumumba) William Paris, Fanon’s “This is the Voice of Algeria” read with Sylvia Wynter Pedro DiPietro, Fanon with Octavia Butler Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Fanon and the Spirit of Bandung Chair: Barnor Hesse (African American Studies)