The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition - Einzelansicht

What is the value of the idea of a Black Radical Tradition? Why should Black radicalism think of itself in terms of a tradition? Is there a single tradition of Black radicalism or many, converging or diverging, that should be taken into consideration? What assumptions about "Black" (as identity) and "radicalism" (as politics) are at work when the idea of a Black radical tradition is invoked (or indeed implied)? What notions of "inheritance" and "generations" inform, or might inform, the idea that Black radicalism constitutes a tradition?

This seminar features Prof. David Scott (Columbia University), who will be in Potsdam as Mercator Professor at the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms. The seminar is open to Ph.D. fellows of the RTG as well as MA students in English and Anglophone Modernities. The seminar will take place in several blocks and lectures, all of which which MA students must attend in order to get credit for this class. Please address all questions to Nicole Waller.

1. Introduction (for MA students only): Friday, May 5 (14:15)

2. Friday, May 26 (14:15-17:45)

3. Friday, June 16 (14:15-17:45)

4. Friday, June 23 (14:15-17:45)

5. Conclusion (for MA students only): Friday, July 14 (14:15)

6. Lectures at Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Saturday, June 3 (16:00), Friday, June 9 (18:30), Friday, July 7 (18:30).

Course texts will be made available on moodle.

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