Making sense of our time: Scorched Earth, Vibrant Milieus
- Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15–19:00
- Type: Lecture
- Lecturer: Neferti Xina M.Tadiar, professor at Columbia University
- Organiser: Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
- Contact person: Linda Isacsson
Neferti Xina M. Tadiar is a professor of Women´s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University and will in this lecture talk about the destructive terraforming role of imperial war in maintaining a dominant global way of life, and the role of shared lifemaking on the part of the dispossessed in creating milieus of vibrant change.
Registration (no later than November 29)
We invite you to a mingle after the event
Neferti Xina M. Tadiar is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University, and currently Moa Martinsson Guest Professor at the University of Linköping. She is a world leading scholar whose work examines the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality, and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. In her most recent book Remaindered Life (Duke University Press, 2022), Tadiar offers a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of the global empire of capital, exposing the “brutality and despair of our current global political economic moment while gesturing to something beyond it in a nonheroic, elegiac way that pays deep respect to those whose lives are remaindered.” Together with Angela Y. Davis she edited the volume Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation exploring the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance, looking specifically at topics such as 90s fashion advertisements, the politics of cosmetic surgery, and female fans of East LA rock bands.
This lecture is part of The Uppsala Lectures on Making Sense of our Time - a cross- disciplinary lecture serie in the Humanistiska teatern.