Location: Lynn Chu L002 Milstein, Barnard and virtual for non-CU/BC members
Thabisile Griffin, ACLS Global Racisms Fellow, ICLS and History, Columbia University.
This series is being sponsored by the the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society with the support of Africana Studies (Barnard), the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (CU), AAADS (CU), and IRAAS (CU)
Featured guests- Theo Henderson, Camalita Naicker, Ayantu Tibeso
Presentations and discussion on histories of State/ authoritative imposition of diabolical/crazed language and terminology on people and movements, and lessons of radical refusal. Readings will be provided.
About this event
The Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with the support of Africana Studies at Barnard,the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, AAADS and IRAAS at Columbia University presents
Blueprints for Undercommons: Local and Global Wildness
April 14th-16th, 2022 at Columbia University and Barnard College
Join our three day series of work study groups, presentations, film screenings and musical performances, showcasing, studying, and discussing global events and movements that have been understood as wild and incomprehensible, forms of ‘acting out,’ or as instantiating periods of disorientation.
Friday 4/15, 6:30-8pm EST
“Language and Accusations of Crazy”
Location: Lynn Chu L002 Milstein, Barnard and virtual for non-CU/BC members. Please note that this event will not be recorded.
The Undercommons is both a practice and place of fugitive freedom against logics of manufactured debt, racial capitalism, and neoliberal conceits.
Powered by the Black radical tradition, spaces and moments of undercommoning are fundamentally international, studious, illogical, and borderless.
