Yala Kisukidi [lecture]
When:
Thursday, May 26, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 2351 (Kaplan Inst. sem. rm.), 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Phil Hoskins
(847) 491-3864
Group: Comparative Literary Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Critical Theory
Category: Academic
Description:
workshop: Kisukidi’s work-in-progress, sponsored by Critical Theory
Wed. 5/25 | 3:30pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room)
lecture: Black Hopes - A Philosophy of Independences, sponsored by Comp. Lit.
Thurs. 5/26 | 4pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room)
Nadia Yala Kisukidi is is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University where she specializes in French and Africana Philosophy. She has served as vice president of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014-2016) and as a co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa RDC (2021). She has also contributed to the creation of a “Global South” research network between Haïti, France, and Colombia. She has taught in Switzerland and France, and lectured widely in the United States.