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Friday 06 October, 17:00
Translating the world from Africa
Africa is a radical focus for some of the main problems facing humankind as a whole, but it also offers some highly innovative pointers for reading and interpreting the contemporary world. Rather than a stereotypical approach, this is a debate about African contributions to the rebirth of a new global scale Humanism.
5 p.m First Session
Speakers: Jean and John Comaroff, Professors of Anthropology at the University of Chicago "Violence and Disorder: the African Exception?". Deborah Posel, Director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg "What Are the Prospects for a Postcolonial Humanism? Notes from South Africa".
Presented and moderated by: Pep Subirós, Curator of the exhibition «Bamako 05. Another World».
7.30 p.m. Second Session
Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago "Difference and Alterity in the Postcolonial World". Achille Mbembe , Professor of History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) "The Africanisation of the World".
Presented and moderated by: Josep Ramoneda, director of the CCCB.
- Participants
- Speakers:
- Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Deborah Posel, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Achille Mbembe
- Moderator:
- Josep Subirós, Josep Ramoneda
- Themes
- The Present Continuous, The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Open Science, Psi Particle, Art Now, Eco Factor, Emerging Culture, Cybersphere, New Activism
Credits
- Organizer
- , Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
- With the collaboration of
- El País
- Support
- Department of Culture of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, Catalan Agency of Cooperation to the Development