THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
CRITICAL THEORY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH:
TEACH-IN SESSIONS
SESSION 1:
AESTHETICS
AND THE CRITIQUE OF
POLITICAL THEOLOGY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2017
KRESGE 3438
CONVENORS:
Eduardo Sabrovsky
(Instituto Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales)
Peter Fenves (German, NU)
With the participation of Javier Burdman (Political Science, NU)
CORE READINGS:
Eduardo Sabrovsky, "Carl Schmitt: As his Own Most Enemy.”
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, Chapter 3.
BACKGROUND READINGS:
Leo Strauss, “Notes on Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political.”
Chantal Mouffe, “Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy.”
SESSION 2:
AFRO-PESSIMISM,
NORTH AND SOUTH
(APPROPRIATION AND
ITS DISCONTENTS)
A REVERSE TEACH-IN EVENT
9.30am
CONVENORS:
Huey Copeland (Art History & Black Arts Initiative, NU)
Fumi Okiji (Black Arts Postdoctoral Fellow, Performance Studies, and African American Studies, NU)
With the participation of Mlondi Zondi (Performance Studies, NU)
CORE READINGS:
Frank Wilderson III, “Narcissistic Slave” in Red, White & Black.
Huey Copeland, “Flow and Arrest.” Sam Aranke, “Fred Hampton’s Murder and the Coming Revolution.”
Athi Joja, “Critical Reflections on ‘Exhibit B’ and the South African Art World.”
SESSION 3:
FROM STATES OF EXCEPTION
TO THE AESTHETICS
OF BIOPOLITICS
A CROSS-
PROJECT EVENT
SESSION 4:
THE TRANSNATIONAL
ROUTES OF GENDER:
GLOBAL SOUTH
READING STRATEGIES
AND CRITIQUE IN
FEMINIST THEORY
A CROSS-PROJECT EVENT
CONVENORS:
Alejandra Uslenghi
(Spanish and Portuguese, NU)
Penelope Deutscher
(Philosophy, NU)
With the participation of Willy Thayer (Philosophy, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Chile)
CORE READINGS:
Homi Bhabha, “The Burdened Life.” Debarati Sanyal, “Calais’s ‘Jungle’: Refugees, Biopolitics, and the Arts of Resistance.”
Gareth Williams, “Sovereignty and Melancholic Paralysis in Roberto Bolaño.”
Nelly Richard, Margins and Institutions. (Excerpts)
BACKGROUND READINGS:
Willy Thayer, El Fragmento Repetido: Escritos en estado de excepción (ediciones metales pesados), Chapters 1-2.
Nelly Richard, Margins and Institutions. (Excerpts)
CONVENORS:
Evan Mwangi
(English, African Studies, & Indian Ocean Epistemologies Project, NU)
Marisa Belausteguigoitia (Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
With the participation of Serah Kasembeli
(English, Stellenbosch University)
CHAIRS:
Jose Medina
(Philosophy, NU)
Andrew Parker
(Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)
CORE READINGS:
Marisa Belausteguigoitia, “Strategies for a Transnational Reading of Border Writers: Pairing a Triangle.”
Evan Mwangi, “Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations.”
BACKGROUND READINGS:
Short excerpts from Subcommandante Marcos and Chela Sandoval.
FURTHER READINGS:
Short excerpts from Gloria Anzaldúa and Oyeronke Oyewumi.
SESSION 5:
CIRCULATING ANARCHISMS AND MARXISMS IN THE ANDES: A DISCUSSION OF MARX AND MARIÁTEGUI
A SPANISH-LANGUAGE EVENT
CONVENORS:
Jorge Coronado
(Spanish and Portuguese & Latin American Studies, NU)
Víctor Vich (Humanities, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
CORE READINGS:
José Carlos Mariátegui, “Esquema de la evolución económica,” and “El problema de la tierra.” [Also available in English translation.]
Antonio Cornejo Polar, “Mariátegui y su propuesta de una modernidadde raíz andina.”
Antonio Cornejo Polar, “El indigenismo y las literaturas heterogéneas: su dobleestatuto socio-cultural.”
Aníbal Quijano, “Raza, etnía y nación en Mariátegui: Cuestiones preliminares.”
SESSION 6:
CRITICAL MEMORY
11 am
SESSION 7:
INVENTION AND ERRANTRY
IN EDUCATION: RODRÍGUEZ/ KOHAN, RANCIÈRE, AND HOSTOS A GRADUATE-UNDERGRADUATE CROSS-OVER
CONVENORS:
Anna Parkinson
(German & Gender and Sexuality Studies, NU)
Sarah Nuttall
(Literature and Cultural Studies & WISER, Wits University, Johannesburg)
CORE READINGS:
Sarah Nuttall, “Entanglement.”
and “Wound, Surface, Skin.”
Anna Parkinson, “Ressentiment: Democratic Sentiments and the Affective Structure of Postwar West Germany.”
CONVENORS:
Samir Haddad
(Philosophy, Fordham University) Ariana González Stokas
(Council for Inclusive Excellence, Bard College)
Jason Wozniak (Humanities, San Jose State University)
FURTHER READING:
Nelly Richard, “Torments and Obscenities” and “Cites/Sites of Violence: Convulsions of Sense and Official Routines.”
Sarah Nuttall, “The Vitality of Matter: Notes on First Form, Surfaces, Intimacy, and the Social.”
Edouard Glissant, “For Opacity.”
Co-sponsored by the Critical Theory Research Workshop, a Northwestern undergraduate organized cooperative project with graduate students
CORE READING:
Walter Omar Kohan, The Inventive Schoolmaster, Simón Rodríguez, Chapter 2 and Epilogue
BACKGROUND READINGS:
Jacques Rancière, “Ecole, production, égalité.”Edilig: Fondation Diderot, 1988) [Also available in Spanish and English translations.] Eugenio Maria de Hostos, The Pilgrimage of Bayoán, Prologue to the 2nd edition.