Curated by Anthony Bogues and Shana Weinberg, “Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom examines the global networks involved in the African slave trade. This exhibition tells the story of slave insurrections on three vessels including the Amistad, the Meermin, and the Sally, exploring the struggle of the enslaved to resist captivity, gain freedom, and return to their homelands.”
Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Watch live here!
Today, @ 9:30am:
Wlad Godzich, Distinguished Professor of Literature, UCSC, and Visiting Fellow, the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh – “The Stateless and the Proper” –
Stathis Gourgouris, Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature & Society, Classics, Columbia University – “The Epistemology of Edward Said” –
@ 11:00am:
QS Tong, Professor of English, University of Hong Kong – “The Question of Tibet and Orientalism” –
RA Judy, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh – “‘Gods always fail’: Said as an Index of Secular Humanism, the Arab Revolution, and Frantz Fanon” –
Daniel T. O’Hara, First Term Mellon Professor of English, Temple University – “On Late Style? The Question of a New Beginning” –
@ 1:30pm:
Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University – “Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists” –
Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh – “What Can We Learn from Uniqueness?” –
Donald E. Pease, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Dartmouth College – “Said’s Melville” –
@ 3:30pm:
Closing Discussion with Paul A. Bové, chair
boundary 2 will broadcast live coverage of all lectures, readings and panels. See the event schedule for details.
*Broadcasting should remain uninterrupted; though, bear with us, as boundary 2 pushes past any technical difficulties*
Update, 11/8: Some tears in the technological sail have been mended, as long as the university WiFi holds true for the running time of each discussion.
The world-famous course of lectures and seminars begins again this summer. Here is the Institute’s Schedule. Don Pease, the Institute’s director, will be delivering his lecture, “Between the Camp and the Commons.”
Our friends in France–please try to be there, especially to hear Tony Bogues on The Collective Memory of Slavery in the US . . . .
On the 40th anniversary of Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence, Dan O’Hara organized a one day meeting to discuss the merits and place of the book and Bloom’s theory. Here is link to the audio recording of the days events. Speakers included Dan O’Hara, Jonathan Arac, Susan Balée, and Paul Bové with lots of discussion.
Utrecht, April 15 – 17. Here’s the link.
Here is the video of those debates, with Don continuing his long meditations on America and President Obama.
Joe Cleary opens b2‘s Legacies of the Future: The Life and Work of Edward Said. Turn up the volume.
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cover photo: Map of Robinson Crusoe Island
Aamir Mufti brings the historic Bandung Conference into the scope of the conversation. A part of b2‘s series on The Life and Work of Edward Said.
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cover photo: Gedung Merdeka in Bandung
