Seminar: "Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa"
Welcome to an open seminar about this year’s Holberg Prize winner: historian, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe.
In collaboration with the Holbgerg Prize, the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) and the Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature invite everyone to an open seminar/reading session on this year’s Holberg Prize Laureate: historian, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe.
The seminar will give short introductions to key texts and concepts in Mbembe’s thinking and opens for broad discussions on his work at large. Each introduction has attached to it a suggested reading.
The seminar will be held in SKOK's meeting room at Parkveien 9 and online. No registration is required for in--person attendance. For online attendance via Zoom, please register via this link.
Programme and suggested reading
Introduction: Kari Jegerstedt, Head of Centre at SKOK: Thinking the world from Africa
Marry-Anne Karlsen and Christine M. Jacobsen, Department of Social Anthropology: Temporality in the Postcolony
Suggested reading: "Time on the Move" and "The final Manner", in On the Postcolony (2001)
Kjersti Aarstein, SKOK: Necropolitics and Palestine
Suggested reading: The Society of Enmity” in Necropolitics (2019)
Johannes Grytnes, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies:
Decolonization and the University in Neoliberal Times
Suggested reading: "Decolonizing the University: New Directions" (2016)
Gisle Selnes, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies:
Violence, State of Exception and Enmity in Politiques de l’inimite
"The Society of Enmity" in Necropolitics (2019)
Svati Shah, SKOK: Critique of Black Reason and the Antropocene
Suggested reading: "The Clinic of the Subject" in Critique of Black Reason (2017)
Kari Jegerstedt, SKOK: The Becoming Black of the World and Mbembe’s Planetary Trilogy
Suggested reading: "Preface" and "Introduction" in Brutalism (2024) and “The Universal Right to Breathe” in The Earthly Community (2022)
All readings are available online. Should you request a pdf, please contact Kamilla Stølen.
Welcome!