Heare Now Aimé Césaire!
A Discussion with Gary Wilder
Friday, Nov 22nd, 2013, 1:00pm
Room C203 (Concourse Level)
Graduate Center, CUNY

Join Gary Wilder as he explores Aimé Césaire’s distinctive critical orientation to politics, culture, and knowledge during the period of decolonization as he pursued projects that were at once situated and world-historical, realist and utopian, pragmatic and aesthetic, timely and untimely. The aim is to recognize Césaire as an innovative thinker of his time who can also speak directly to many of the political and theoretical predicaments of our times.

Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). His current research project, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, Utopia, examines post-World War II initiatives by African and Caribbean legislators to reconstitute France as a postcolonial federal democracy.

Cosponsored by The Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, The Advanced Research Collaborative, the Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar in the Humanities, IRADAC, and the Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative.