USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Next Wednesday: Achille Mbembe on Mapping Planetary Humanities

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From: Center for the Humanities <events@humanities.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 at 21:45
Subject: Next Wednesday: Achille Mbembe on Mapping Planetary Humanities
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Wednesday, May 5 Mapping Planetary Humanities: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This final session of the ongoing speaker series Mapping Planetary Humanities will consist of an interview on the ways that Dr. Achille Mbembe's work intersects with questions of planetary, decolonization, and critical race studies, followed by Q&A with the audience.  A renowned public intellectual and prolific writer, Dr. Mbembe has written extensively on postcolonial theory and African history and politics. His most recent work theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world through the lens of necropolitics and explores planetary habitability as inseparable from the politics of care, repair, and restitution. To help facilitate our discussion on planetary and decolonization, we invite you to review "Thoughts on the planetary: An interview with Achille Mbembe," published on September 5, 2019, with New Frame, as well as Chapter 1, "Planetary Entanglements," from Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization, and the Introduction and Epilogue ("The Becoming Black of the World" and "There is Only One World," respectively) from Critique of Black Reason. Please email arosoaie@wisc.edu if you ned help accessing these sources. Alien Earth: Introduction to Planetary Humanities is hosted by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our workshop aims to draw together an interdisciplinary consortium of scholars from across humanities and sciences to explore the intersections of astronomy, colonialism and critical race studies, climate change and environmental justice.  Wednesday, May 5, 10:00 AM CST More information: https://humanities.wisc.edu/events/entry/achille-mbembe-1 Please join the event via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93556122629 View a complete listing of our 2021 public events. The Center for the Humanities catalyzes innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative inquiry in core and emerging humanities fields at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and beyond. Our programs establish a coordinated vision for scholarly and public engagement with literature, history, philosophy, and culture through workshops, fellowships, seminars, and conferences. Each year we welcome world-renowned scholars from across campus and around the globe for public lectures, events, and projects. We are grateful for the essential support of the College of Letters & Science, the A. W. Mellon Foundation, the Anonymous Fund of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Brittingham Fund Inc., the Evjue Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, UW-Madison Libraries, Madison Public Library, and individual donors. UW-Madison Center for the Humanities | https://humanities.wisc.edu/ ‌ ‌ ‌

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