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Seminar
SoSe 21: Theories of Racial Enslavement – Introduction to Black Studies
Henrike Elisabeth Kohpeiß, Matthew James Milbourne, Jan Slaby
Comments
The transatlantic slave trade is a historical point of departure for many of the theories running under the label Black Studies. Approaching this four-centuries long “non-event” (Moten 2003) as an object of theoretical thought holds out the challenge of finding a language for the violence committed and endured, of coming to terms with both the “sayable” and the “unsayable”, and embracing what language affords and where words have never gone. In our seminar we will read so-called slave narratives as well as theoretical accounts of racial slavery and discuss them with a focus on their literary strategies and philosophical perspectives. We are interested in reflecting on the ways in which affective spheres of enslavement are transmitted textually. We also aim familiarize ourselves with discourses about memory, repair, and subjectivity that evolve around the “afterlives of slavery” (Hartman 1997). This course is an introduction to theories of blackness and is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Institute of Philosophy and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. The teaching language is English. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2021-04-15 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-04-22 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-04-29 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-05-06 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-05-20 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-05-27 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-06-03 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-06-10 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-06-17 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-06-24 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-07-01 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-07-08 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2021-07-15 14:00 - 16:00