Dialogue
Wed 18 Apr 2018

Violence and the Archive

Participants

Ylva HabelSaidiya HartmanM. NourbeSe Philip

Welcome to this PARSE Dialogue, on relating histories of violence and fragmented archives, pertaining to the fraught legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade.

With:
M. NourbeSe Philip, poet
Saidiya V. Hartman, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Ylva Habel, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University

Schedule

Day 1 - Wednesday18 Apr 2018

Day 2 -

Day 3 -

Day 4 -

Day 5 -

Contributors

Ylva Habel

Biography coming soon

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She is the author of Scenes of subjection, Lose your mother, and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. In her work, she theorizes on the ‘afterlife of slavery’, which describes the enduring presence of the racialized violence of slavery in contemporary life.

M. NourbeSe Philip

M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, writer and lawyer living in Toronto. Her publications include Zong!, She Tries Her Tongue, Looking for Livingstone, and Frontiers: Selected essays and writings on racism and culture.