Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

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
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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 […]

Orogenies and Sound Waves: Beyond Black Ecologies of Mastery

Race, Nature, and Naturalization in Film

December 09, 2021 / 10:30 am - 12:30 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley, Face coverings required

Jumana Manna, Artist, Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

This seminar seeks to think about the role of nature and naturalization in the construction of statehood and racial regimes. It will involve a close reading and discussion of selected passages from writers that Jumana Manna has been engaged with, such as Cedric Robinson and Ann Laura Stoler, and watch excerpts from films by Deborah […]

Archivists, Plumbers, and Foragers

December 08, 2021 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, Face coverings required

Jumana Manna, Artist, Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

In this lecture, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as sculptor and filmmaker, and the differing yet complimentary processes of abstraction and storytelling that she employs within both mediums. She will focus on her ongoing inquiry into the paradoxes of the modernist urge to categorize and preserve. An urge that often entails an […]

‘Nonpolitical Distinctions’: A Phrase from Marx Revisited with Rei Terada

Escrituras geológicas: Desedimentación y huella en algunas autoras contemporáneas (Geological Writings: De-sedimentation and Trace in Some Contemporary Authors)

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December 01, 2021 / 10:00 am / Add to Calendar
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Cristina Rivera Garza, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Doctorate Program in Creative Writing at the University of Houston; Author, Translator, Critic
Natalia Brizuela, Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, ICCTP, UC Berkeley
Alfonso Fierro, PhD Candidate, Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor the upcoming event Escrituras geológicas: Desedimentación y huella en algunas autoras contemporáneas (Geological Writings: De-sedimentation and Trace in Some Contemporary Authors), part of the Center for Latin American Studies series “New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds.” […]

NATQ: An Audiovisual Lecture on Impossible Speech

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November 03, 2021 / 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm / Add to Calendar
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, International Sound Artist and Professional Audio Investigator

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor the upcoming event “NATQ: An Audiovisual Lecture on Impossible Speech,” the inaugural event of the University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric Department 2021–2022 Colloquia Series. Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an international sound artist and professional audio investigator based in Beirut. His broad body of work […]