On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 15:30 GMT Join ENTANGLEMENT: ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGES for the hybrid event “Re-reading Senghor,” a roundtable discussion convened by Felwine Sarr on the themes of culture, emancipation, vital impulse, and political philosophy in Senghor’s work to examine why we re-read Senghor today and how his thought can help us to rethink critical contemporary issues.
Participants
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Professor of French and of Philosophy, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University)“On the Civilization of the Universal”
- Fatoumata Seck (Assistant Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University) “Senghorian Negritude as Ideological Independence”
- Beata Stawarska (Professor of Philosophy at University of Oregon) “Senghor’s Relational Ontology”
- Cheikh A. Thiam (Professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College) “Negritude, Endogeneity, and Decolonial African Studies”
Schedule
- 11:30 am – 1 PM, Presentations
- 1 PM – 2 PM, Lunch
- 2 PM – 4 PM, Discussion
RSVP for lunch: https://duke.is/c/5xav Zoom registration: https://duke.is/9/4mbn This discussion will be in English. ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGES, convened by Felwine Sarr (Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Dept. of Romance Studies), is part of The Entanglement Project, a multi-stranded initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute focused on race, health, and climate.