[Hum_Calendar_Events] Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series "Humanities After Humanism" Nov. 2, 2007

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the co-evolution of humanism as a specific way of thinking about the
human condition and the humanities as a particular set of disciplinary
formations and practices that have been constituted through the birth
and growth of modern universities in the West. The speakers will address
topics such as the status of critiques of humanism arising from within
humanities; the discourse of human rights; and the role of the
cyber-revolution in challenging and renewing humanistic culture. Also of
interest in this series will be the question of the way globalization
has transformed academic conversations about both humanism as a form of
universal ethics and humanistic research as the mode of inquiry into the
human condition.

Featured Speaker:

 

 

Achille Mbembe

University of California Irvine and University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg

"Humanities After Humanism"

November 2, 2007 4:00pm 135 Humanities Building

Achille Mbembe is one of the most influential theorists of postcolonial
Studies writing today. He is a Professor of Comparative Literature at UC
Irvine, and a research professor in history and politics and a
senior researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Ecomomic Research
(WISER), University of the  Wit-watersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is the author of many influential essays including "Necropolitics"
published in Public Culture  (2003). His latest book, On The Post colony
(UC Press 2001), was the winner of the 2006 Bill Venter/Altron award.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of French and Francophone
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