Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Rethinking Gastro-Nationalism: Food, Political Environment, and Embodiment

Relations of Water: Colonial Dispossession and Living Otherwise in a World on Fire

Co-sponsored events

March 13, 2023 / 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Add to Calendar
554 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

Alyosha Goldstein
Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

This talk is drawn from Goldstein’s current book manuscript, The Colonial Present: Histories of Dispossession beyond Settlement. It considers the colonial-capitalist politics of water for Indigenous peoples and other racialized peoples during the present moment of climate catastrophe. The juridical production of water in the US Southwest as a “natural resource” to be quantified and managed, and […]

Black Studies in/from the Southern Hemisphere, towards a Global Frame

March 06, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

In a chapter entitled “Fanonian Futures,” David Scott points to the difference between the (Frantz) Fanon text that has resonated the most in the Northern Hemisphere — Black Skin, White Masks — and that which seemed most widely read in the South — The Wretched of the Earth, most especially “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness.” […]

1902/2012 South Africa & Translating Blackness

February 27, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

“1902/2012” traces the emergence of Blackness as an ontological category in South Africa. It offers an analysis of early twentieth century Black writing in order to make claims about what Blackness came to mean at the dawn of the last century. Victoria Collis-Buthelezi is director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class at […]

Bodies as Territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender

Lectures

February 21, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Social Sciences Building Room 602, UC Berkeley

Leticia Sabsay, London School of Economics and Political Science

Response by Mel Y. Chen, UC Berkeley In this talk I reconsider the “coloniality of gender” to explore some feminist mobilizations of bodies as territories in contemporary Latin America. I start by revisiting Latin American decolonial, non-binary approaches that highlight the coloniality of knowledge that informs medical and racist constructions of gender. Taking as a […]

Conversation on The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

Book Conversations

February 10, 2023 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
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Felwine Sarr (Duke University), Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg).

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a conversation with Felwine Sarr (Duke University), Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), and […]

Conversation on Undoing Apartheid

Book Conversations

February 03, 2023 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
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Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape), Su-Ming Khoo (University of Galway), Garth Stevens (University of the Witwatersrand), moderated by Maurits van Bever Donker (University of the Western Cape).

10 AM PST / 8 PM SAST / 6 PM GMT Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. Undoing Apartheid, a conversation with the author Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape), Su-Ming Khoo (University of Galway), Garth […]

Conversation on From Ashes to Text: Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th Century

Book Conversations

December 12, 2022 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
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Diego Falconí Trávez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Carrie Hamilton (Author), Joseph M. Pierce (Stony Brook University), Leticia Sabsay (LSE).

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. From Ashes to Text: Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th Century, a conversation with the author Diego Falconí Trávez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Carrie Hamilton […]