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
DECOLONIZING CRITICAL THEORY DECOLONIAL AESTHETICS AND EPISTEMIC VIOLENCE
NOVEMBER 30–DECEMBER 3, 2018
JOHN EVANS ALUMNI CENTER, NORTHWESTeRN UNIVERSITY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
9 am
Revisions of Senghor and Négritude
Graduate Workshop
Yala Kisukidi
(Université Paris VIII)
Chair: Evan Mwangi
(English, NU)
10.30 am
12 pm
Walter Mignolo
Graduate Workshop
Chair: Jorge Sánchez Cruz
(Critical Theory, NU)
An End to Downtown: The Society of Black Composers, The Brooklyn Community Concerts, and the Black Radical Tradition
Ryan Dohoney
(Musicology, NU)
Black Arts Initiative
Brown Bag Lunch Series
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1
10:45 am
History and the University after Apartheid” and “What Is the University for?
Workshop
Premesh Lalu
(University of the Western Cape)
Chair and Respondent:
Anna Parkinson
(German, NU)
Respondent: Dilip Gaonkar
(Rhetoric and Public Culture/Center for Global Culture and Communication)
Graduate Respondent:
Candice Jansen
(Mellon fellow, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand)
1:30 pm
break
12:15 pm
lunch
1:45 pm
1:35 pm
Modern/Colonial Esthetics and Decolonial/Dewestern Esthesis
Walter Mignolo
(Duke)
Chair: José Medina (Philosophy, NU)
Panel: "Decoloniality, Postgender, and the Posthuman"
Axelle Karera
(Wesleyan University)
“Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics”
Chair: Ryan Dohoney
(Musicology, NU)
Respondent:
Kyoo Lee
(CUNY)
Graduate Respondents:
Benjamin Jones
(Art History, NU)
Jared Rodriguez
(African American Studies, NU)
3:45 pm
Racial Hospitality: on Decoloniality and
Afro-Pessimism
Yala Kisukidi
(Université Paris VIII)
Chair: Juan Obarrio
(Johns Hopkins University)
Respondent: Evan Mwangi
(English, NU)
Graduate Respondents:
Marlon Millner
(Religious Studies, NU)
Carmen De Schryver
(Philosophy, NU)
2:45 pm
Hallucinating Selves: Trans* Embodiments and More-Than-Human Perception within Chicana and Latina Feminisms
Panel
Pedro DiPietro
(Syracuse University)
Chair: Ryan Dohoney
(Musicology, NU)
Respondent: Jorge Sánchez Cruz (Critical Theory, NU)
Graduate Respondent:
Alicia Núñez
(Spanish & Portuguese, NU)
6 pm
Art, Culture, and Critique in the Bahamian Context
Panel
Nicolette Bethel
(University of The Bahamas)
Keisha Oliver
(University of The Bahamas)
Malika Pryor-Martin
(The National Art Gallery
of The Bahamas)
Chair:
Joshua Chambers-Letson (Performance Studies, NU)
Respondent: Arnold Kemp
(School of The Art Institute of Chicago)
4 pm
5:15 pm
Panel: Axelle Karera (Wesleyan University) and Pedro DiPietro (Syracuse University) Chair: Ryan Dohoney (Musicology)
Drinks and Documentaries: Premesh Lalu and Uhuru Phalafala
Screening and Discussion of Rui Assubuji’s “Art of Healing” (CHR, 17min) Premesh Lalu’s “Looking for Ned” (CHR, 13min)
10 am
6:30 pm
The Activism of Decolonizing the University in South Africa
Panel
Uhuru Phalafala
(Stellenbosch University)
Premesh Lalu
(University of the Western Cape) Chair and Host: Northwestern University’s MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) Chapter
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2
From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique
Panel
María del Rosario Acosta López
(DePaul University) Respondent: Rocío Zambrana Graduate Respondent:
Eskil Elling
(Philosophy)
7:15 pm
dinner
10:40 am
Presentation on Juan Obarrio’s The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Panel
Samera Esmeir
(UC Berkeley)
Respondent:
Pamila Gupta (WISER)
Graduate Respondent: Gabriela Mayes
(Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
9 am
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”
Workshop
Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University)
Alia Al-Saji
(McGill University)
Chair: Rachel Riedl (Director, African Studies Program, NU)
11:20 am
Presentation on Samera Esmeir’s Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
Panel
Juan Obarrio
(John Hopkins University)
Graduate Respondents: Lauren Baker
(Political Science, NU),
Owen Brown
(Political Science, NU),
Nathalia Justo
(Political Science, NU)
11 am
Fanonian Meditations, the Decolonial Turn, and the Spirit of Bandung
Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University)
Chair: Doris Garraway (French & Italian, NU)
Respondent: Alia Al-Saji (McGill University)
roundtable lunch
12:30 pm
12 pm
Decoloniality, Legal Multiplicity, and the Violence of the Law
Discussion
Juan Obarrio, Samera Esmeir, and María del Rosario Acosta López
Chair: Alejandra Uslenghi (Spanish & Portuguese, NU)
1 pm
lunch
2:30 pm
Pasarse Políticamente: Hopeful Acts of Protest in Puerto Rico
Panel
Rocío Zambrana
(University of Oregon, Eugene)
Chair and Respondent: Ramón Rivera-Servera (Performance Studies, NU) Graduate Respondents: Arnaldo Rodríguez- Bagué (Performance Studies, NU) Zorimar Rivera Montes (Spanish & Portuguese, NU)
12:30 pm
Concluding Lunchtime Discussion:
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, NU)
4:30 pm
Discussion of Aranke on the Black Panthers’ engagement with Fanon’s revolutionary
Sampada Aranke
(School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chair:
Huey Copeland
(Black Arts Initiative/ Art History, NU)
Graduate Respondents:
Le’ah Kaplan
(African American Studies, NU)
Mlondi Zondi (Performance Studies, NU)
5:15 pm
My Name is Afrika: Keorapetse Kgositsile, Black Arts Movement, and Polyglot Internationalism
Discussion
Uhuru Phalafala
(Stellenbosch University)
Chair: Huey Copeland (Black Arts Initiative/ Art History, NU)
Respondent:
Harris Feinsod (Comparative Literary Studies, NU)
Graduate Respondent: Susanna Sacks (English, NU)
6 pm
Drinks and Discussion: Sampada Aranke and Uhuru Phalafala Chair:
Huey Copeland (Black Arts Initiative/ Art History)
Graduate Respondent: Tyrone Palmer (African American Studies, NU)
7:15 pm
dinner