Friday, September 30, 2016
2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street
A common thread of the Mellon Sawyer seminar is displacement as formative of power relations of inclusion and exclusion that have shaped global histories and had long term effects on multiple environments and forms of subjectivity.
The seminar’s first event headed by Adi Ophir and Beshara Doumani will address and question a cluster of key concepts that may help – or obstruct – our thinking about this set of large scale phenomena. Each presentation will be dedicated to a single concept, which would serve as lens for questioning ways through which aspects of displacement (including “displacement” itself) are put into discourse. By focusing on key concepts we hope to generate a shared lexicon, identify areas of fruitful dispute and push some epistemic boundaries.
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: First Panel
Barry Bogues: Human
Vazira Zamindar: War
Leela Gandhi: Social Contract
Leah Vanwey: Mobility
4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Coffee Break
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.: Second Panel
Rebecca Nedostup: Emplacement
Vikramaditya Thakur: Resettlement.
Tamara Chin: Contact
Beshara Doumani: Replacement
Co-sponsored and organized by the Cogut Center for the Humanities
This series is funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.