Join us for a lecture on April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM, featuring Prof. Anthony B. Bogues, the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University. This event is part of The Imagined New – Volume III series, and will take place at The Africa Institute Auditorium, Sharjah (location map).
In his talk, The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective, Prof. Bogues will examine the shifting political and human landscape in today’s tumultuous world. He will explore how violence has evolved into power and what this means for the future of humanity.
The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective begins with the observation that we live in a tumultuous world. A world in which the conventional frames of politics and human life have rapidly shifted. It is a new conjuncture. In this talk, Prof Anthony Bogues will attempt to tease out some of the features of this conjuncture. Working from the frame of an African and African Diaspora critical tradition Bogues will discuss the ways in which violence has morphed into power and how new death-worlds are being created in the present.
Thinking about the question of the human, The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective will ask critical questions of the practices of being human today and what that practice means for possible alternative forms of life which will create a different world.
Anthony B. Bogues is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Inaugural Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. He is currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture and Media, History of Art and Architecture.
Bogues is a political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. He is also a Visiting Professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Professor-at-Large at The Africa Institute, Global Studies University. In 2024, Bogues received an honorary degree (D. Litt) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Bogues’s research interests include literary and cultural history; radical political thought; critical theory; and Caribbean and African politics. Read more.
Join us for a lecture on April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM, featuring Prof. Anthony B. Bogues, the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University. This event is part of The Imagined New – Volume III series, and will take place at The Africa Institute Auditorium, Sharjah (location map).
Join us for a lecture on April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM, featuring Prof. Anthony B. Bogues, the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University. This event is part of The Imagined New – Volume III series, and will take place at The Africa Institute Auditorium, Sharjah (location map).
In his talk, The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective, Prof. Bogues will examine the shifting political and human landscape in today’s tumultuous world. He will explore how violence has evolved into power and what this means for the future of humanity.
The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective begins with the observation that we live in a tumultuous world. A world in which the conventional frames of politics and human life have rapidly shifted. It is a new conjuncture. In this talk, Prof Anthony Bogues will attempt to tease out some of the features of this conjuncture. Working from the frame of an African and African Diaspora critical tradition Bogues will discuss the ways in which violence has morphed into power and how new death-worlds are being created in the present.
Thinking about the question of the human, The Present Conjuncture: Illiberalism, War, and Violence: A Perspective will ask critical questions of the practices of being human today and what that practice means for possible alternative forms of life which will create a different world.
Anthony B. Bogues is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Inaugural Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. He is currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture and Media, History of Art and Architecture.
Bogues is a political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. He is also a Visiting Professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Professor-at-Large at The Africa Institute, Global Studies University. In 2024, Bogues received an honorary degree (D. Litt) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Bogues’s research interests include literary and cultural history; radical political thought; critical theory; and Caribbean and African politics. Read more.
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