Categories - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Rethinking Sovereignty: Histories from the South

November 09, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Prathama Banerjee
Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India; Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

In this seminar, we ask if the concept of sovereignty—as it evolved out of European histories of early modern absolutist states and subsequently globalized via the work of colonialism and nationalism—works well in understanding the nature of political power in the world today. We begin the discussion by studying histories of kingship, caste, and indigeneity in South […]

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.” […]

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

A Critical Phenomenology of Race and Social Reproduction

Race, Nature, and Naturalization in Film