BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T144401Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal fi lled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French Comm unist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of univ ersal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Rec alling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that serves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familiar w ith the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cultur e that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of wha t it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by reading culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.\n \n Bio:\n \nElisabeth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparat ive Literature at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Univ ersal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 20 20)\, engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négri tude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theor y of emancipation. Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writin gs of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Fe minist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during th e summer.\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nServing as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French Communist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of universal emancipation. To d o so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is a n example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words i n “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that serves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familiar with the play of the worl d.” To this end\, I develop a conception of culture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by reading culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Elisabeth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. H er book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (Univ ersity of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages French political theorist Alai n Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Currently\, she is workin g on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
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