Ancestral Claims
Please join the Decolonization and Climate Crisis Lab (DCCL) for "Ancestral Claims," a lecture by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the Univ. of British Columbia.
UPDATED 9/12: This is now a hybrid event!
- To join us in-person, please sign up here to help us plan for lunch: https://duke.is/yc4gm PLEASE NOTE THAT CAPACITY IS LIMITED
- To join us virtually, please register here: https://duke.is/rcjhw
ABOUT THE TALK
If we are to attend to demands for decolonization (land dis-occupation and labor reparation), if we are to appreciate its ethical force, Prof. Ferreira da Silva argues, a radical philosophical re-orientation is needed. Towards contributing to such a move, in this presentation, she will comment on this move in a speculative experiment on heat, which has been inspired by the Return of a Lake, which is an installation by the Brazilian artist Maria Tereza Alves. This talk will speculate on a shift of the undergrounds of thinking, which includes an account of existence that would correspond to a disruption of the basics of western philosophy, such as the collapsing of the metaphysical and the ontological into the existential without the presumption of transparency and the philosophical figure that hosts it, namely the subject.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
An academic and artist, Denise Ferreira da Silva is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minnesota, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (Oficina da Imaginaçāo Política & Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Stenberg/MIT, 2022 ) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins, 2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture & Society, Social Identities, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri.
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The DCCL is part of Entanglements, a new project at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. More information here: https://fhi.duke.edu/entanglements
