Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations

Program in Literature Spring Symposium

Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations

This two-day symposium will take up the charge of thinking disparate modes of racializations as coevally constituted and entangled in discourse, material experience, coloniality, and geopolitics. We hope to consider how theories of race emerge at the site of antiracist and anticolonial political organizing and struggle. Ultimately, we want to think about how entangled and incommensurate racializations reshape conventions and traditions of critical theory.

Thursday, April 4
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Panel 1
David Eng, University of Pennsylvania, "Reparations and the Human"
Yogita Goyal, UCLA, "Race, Caste, and Failures of Comparison"
Moderator: Pratistha Bhattarai

Friday, April 5
9:30am-11:30am
Panel 2
Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College, "Black Mirror/Black Marxism: Racial Capitalism in the Green Colony"
Rocío Zambrana, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, "Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Long 17th Century"
Moderator: Luciana Parisi

11:30-12:00: Coffee Break

12:00-1:00: Roundtable Discussion
Moderators: Michael Hardt and Christina León