Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Felwine Sarr: Music, Freedom, Africa

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February 23, 2023 / 5:30 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley

Felwine Sarr (Duke University), Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley).

Reserve complimentary tickets here. In this conversation with music, Felwine Sarr addresses some of the topics that traverse his multidisciplinary work: freedom, dreams, relationality, repair, transmission, traces, and non-logocentric forms of sensemaking. Sarr is best known as the author of the award-winning Afrotopia (2016) and Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage (2018), which shifted conversations at a […]

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 […]

Rithy Panh in Person: Irradiated

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September 25, 2022 / 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley

Rithy Panh, Documentary Film Director and Screenwriter, Cambodia/France; Boreth Ly, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Art History and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz

This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime, Panh has devoted his career to telling the stories of the perpetrators and some two million victims who died in extermination prisons and labor camps in Cambodia between 1975 and […]

Rithy Panh in Person: The Missing Picture

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September 24, 2022 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley

Rithy Panh, Documentary Film Director and Screenwriter, Cambodia/France; Khatharya Um, Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime, Panh has devoted his career to telling the stories of the perpetrators and some two million victims who died in extermination prisons and labor camps in Cambodia between 1975 and […]