Deborah Thomas: Archive-Building and the Problem of Violence

Deborah Thomas: Archive-Building and the Problem of Violence

When

October 18, 2011    
12:00 am

Event Type

THE COMMITTEE ON GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE & THE CENTER FOR HUMANITIES
Present

Archive-Building and the Problem of Violence

Deborah Thomas

Tuesday, October 18th, 2:00 pm

Segal Theatre | CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016

 

Join Deborah A. Thomas (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) as she discusses the process of archive-building in relation to epistemological violence and the effects on this project for Caribbean Studies.

Thomas is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational JamaicaModern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica, and is co-editor of Globalization and Race:  Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (with Kamari Clarke).

Jennifer L. Morgan (Department of History and Social Cultural Analysis, NYU) will serve as a discussant.

Reading and Registration Required.

Professor Thomas’ essay is available on the seminar website:  http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/content/caribbean-epistemologies

 

Deborah Thomas: Archive-Building and the Problem of Violence
Date: October 18, 2011
Time: 12:00 am

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