POSTPONED: This is to inform you that the Panel Discussion on ‘Aesthetics and Politics: A Dialogue across Continents’ scheduled today at 6.30 pm has been postponed due to Coronavirus infection of the panelists. Inconvenience Regretted.
This is a conversation with the Other Universals (OU) Consortium, consisting of colleagues from four universities of South Africa ( Western Cape, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Witwatersrand), American University of Beirut, University of West Indies, University of Ghana (Legon) and University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). The OU consortium asks what kind of anti-imperial solidarities have been imagined in locations marked by the struggle to refuse subordination and negation, as embodied in blackness, Orientalism, untouchability and non-normative sexualities in 19th and 20th century Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and South Asia. In other words, what does the Universal look like from elsewhere?
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Panelists
Aaron Kamugisha is Professor of Caribbean and Africana Thought at the University of the West Indies.
Heidi Grunebaum is the Director of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is Associate Professor in English and Director, Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at University of Johannesburg.
Chika Mba is Research Fellow in the Religions and Philosophy Section of the Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana.
Moderators
Prathama Banerjee and Baidik Bhattacharya are Professors at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Monday, 5 April 2021, 6.30 pm, Zoom https://bit.ly/3slMl8u
