Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

From Disobedience to Solidarity: Confronting Authoritarianisms

Conversation on Black is the Journey, Africana the Name

Book Conversations

April 01, 2022 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event, Register Here

Maboula Soumahoro (University of Tours), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg), Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Duke University), Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA).

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. Black is the Journey, Africana the Name, a conversation with the author Maboula Soumahoro (University of Tours), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg), Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Duke University), Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA). Black is the […]

Fanon’s “Dramaturgy” of Critique: Race, Blackness, and Philosophical Address

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March 31, 2022 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Lucie K. Mercier, Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy, Visiting Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Paris 8 and at the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley

My point of departure is the following problem: whilst Frantz Fanon’s works have become central to what might be understood as the critique of race, contemporary concepts of race do not coincide, in any univocal way, with the object of Fanon’s critique. Competing philosophical interpretations of such (present-absent) object have now come to define widely differing, if […]

Conversation on Colonial Trauma

Book Conversations

March 28, 2022 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
4229 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Karima Lazali, Psychoanalyst, Algeria and France
In conversation with Stefania Pandolfo, Professor of Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley, and Soraya Tlatli, Associate Professor of French, UC Berkeley

In her book Colonial Trauma, Karima Lazali offers an account of the psychological and political effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon in the 1950s, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical experience as a practicing psychoanalyst to shed new light on the ways in which the history […]

Les Ateliers de la Pensée #4: Bond Cosmologies and Forms of Life

A Critical Phenomenology of Race and Social Reproduction

March 15, 2022 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley, Face coverings required

Hourya Bentouhami, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

What are the virtues and limits of the phenomenological paradigm for thinking about race? The force of phenomenological presentations makes it possible to apprehend both racialization and various forms of bodily resistance to this process. Indeed phenomenology (or rather a minority version of it) makes it possible to think of the structuring of the subject […]

A World Beyond the Colonial Epistemology: Writing with Engagement

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March 11, 2022 / 10:00 am - 11:30 am / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event, Register Here

Malcom Ferdinand, CNRS

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor “A World Beyond the Colonial Epistemology: Writing with Engagement,” part of the Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies series “New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds.” The series “New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds” focuses on critics and intellectuals who in their writing […]

Civilizing through Food: French Fantasies about Gastronomy and the “Muslim Diet”

March 08, 2022 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley, Face coverings required

Hourya Bentouhami, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

In France, far-right movements have often called attention to how Muslims eat, characterizing ritual slaughter and Ramadan as atrocities and attacks on French national identity. But in recent years, this discourse has been taken up by people across the political spectrum who seek to defend “French cuisine” against Muslim culinary practices. Since Muslims do not […]

Rebranding the Human: On Wynter’s Custodial "Poiesis" with Axelle Karera

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March 03, 2022 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
188 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Axelle Karera, Emory University

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor “Rebranding the Human: On Wynter’s Custodial ‘Poiesis’” with Axelle Karera, an event in the University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric Department 2021–2022 Colloquia Series. It is in the midst of shared discontent with what the term “Anthropocene” has to offer that demands for alternative accounts […]