[csaa-forum] Seminar on the Transnational at UNSW: Humanism and Repetition, Dr Michael Griffiths (UOW), Friday 13th November, 4.30pm - 6pm

[Laetitia Nanquette]

Humanism and Repetition
Dr Michael Griffiths, University of Wollongong
Friday 13th November, 4.30pm - 6pm
Robert Webster Building, Room 327
Michael Griffiths has published on poetics and intention in postcolonial literature, whiteness in the settler colonial public sphere, Daniel Defoe and critical animal studies, Alfred Hitchcock and Gilles Deleuze. He has a PhD in English from Rice University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society before joining the University of Wollongong.
“[A]ll you best dread the day when
I am healed / of being a human.”

- Shabine, in Derek Walcott’s “The Spoiler’s Return.”
The putatively universal concepts of modernity and enlightenment are frequently located in originary events. Humanism and its conjunction with the discourse of rights is no exception, located at it is in Eurocentric and Western genealogies harking back to 1776 and 1789. This talk re-thinks the global subaltern relation of humanism via the Black Atlantic and its parallel formations. Universal humanism, it argues, is not made in its (often exclusionary) declarations, but in the struggle over its extension and repetition beyond the space of whiteness.
All are very welcome to the workshop. There is no need to register
For enquiries, Dr Laetitia Nanquette: l.nanquette at unsw.edu.au<mailto:l.nanquette at unsw.edu.au>
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