Re-Reading Senghor
Please join ENTANGLEMENT: ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGES for the hybrid event "Re-reading Senghor," convened by Felwine Sarr, a roundtable discussion 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.
