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
2021-2022
Conferences and Workshops
Decolonizing Universality
June 17-18, 2021 | Northwestern
Thursday,
June 3, 2021
Preparatory Undergraduate Workshop Organized by Nicholas Corvino and Sascha Deng focusing on Souleymane Bachir Diagne's work, "On the Post-Colonial and the Universal?".
The conference "Decolonizing Universality, Decolonizing the University," featured Nadia Yala Kisukidi (Paris 8), Paulin J. Hountondji (National University Bénin), and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University). Bringing together three highly distinguished researchers within the field of Africana philosophy, the presentations and roundtable discussions have focused on the themes of a decolonial reclamation of universality and the decolonization of academia.
Thursday, June 17th
10 am
presentation:
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Chair: Rachel Zuckert
(Philosophy, NU)
Graduate respondents:
Gorgui I. Tall
(French and Italian, NU)
Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen (English, NU)
11 am
presentation:
Paulin J. Hountondji
Chair: Doris Garraway
(French and Italian, NU)
Graduate respondents:
Alan Chavoya (Philosophy, NU)
Carmen De Schryver
(Philosophy, NU)
Friday, June 18th
10 am
presentation:
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Chair: Evan Mwangi
(English, NU)
Graduate respondents: Ashley Ferrell (Rhetoric and Public Culture, NU)
Noran Mohamed (French and Italian, NU)
2 pm
Undergraduate workshop with Souleymane Bachir Diagne and participants in the “Critical Theory Workshop”.
11 am
Roundtable discussion
Chaired: Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
May 25, 2022 | Northwestern
nadia yala kisukidi
workshop: DREAMT TERRITORIES and DIASPORIC POLITICS: Art, Futurity, and Philosophy
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May 26, 2022 | Northwestern
nadia yala kisukidi
Lecture: Black Hopes - A Philosophy of Independences
(presented by the Program of Comparative Literary Studies)
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