ICGC Colloquium Series

The talk calls to attention to critiques of Lusotropicalism emerging in very different geo-cultural and political spaces of contestation and/or active struggle against Portuguese colonialism in Africa.

This research examines the connection between the writings of women who have ended their lives and the authors who have interconnected their own narratives to them. It examines how the experience of fatalistic suicide, as a social act, is embodied by women writers. 

Lindokuhle Mandyoli proposes a re-examination of what we understand colonial injustice to be – a fundamentally material injustice. Mandyoli essentially deals with two contending arguments on the debate on justice in South Africa, namely Transformative Constitutionalism and the Constitutional Abolitionists.

Through ethnographic research among the silsila (chain/spiritual genealogy) members of Naqshbandia Awaisia in Pakistan, my project focuses on the Sufi practice of zikr in which practitioners synchronize the repetition of their breath and head movement with the inner recitation of Allah's name.

This talk aims to analyze how Indigenous writers are creating a new site of signification in literature where the myth of the War on Drugs is deconstructed bringing to light how the State-sanctioned violence is a mechanism of dispossession.

This talk explores the discursive processes by which we retain conviviality, consensus, and smooth engagement in the interactions that make up our everyday lives.

To “capture the meaning of group destruction one must begin to decolonize the Eurocentric assumptions of genocide studies”, Andrew Woolford contends (2014, p. 33). Taking up his admonition, my dissertation project reticulates from memorial rides which enact horse-human kinship and nationhood in Oceti Sakowiŋ territory and temporality.