Keynote speakers:

Achille Mbembe

Research Professor in History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa and a Senior Researcher at the Witwatersrand
Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg

Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the
University of California (Irvine)


Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago, Illinois


Speakers:


Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Assistant Professor; Spanish; and Director, Duke-in-Madrid
Duke University

Mario Blaser
Assistant Professor in International Development Studies
York University, Toronto

Michaeline Crichlow
Associate Professor, Department of African and African American Studies
Duke University

Sean Metzger
Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Professor of Theater Studies
Duke University


Patricia M. Northover

Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

University of the West Indies


Tejaswini Niranjana
Director & Senior Fellow
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India

Tejumola Olaniyan
Professor of African Languages and Literature and Louise Durham Mead Professor of English
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Vicente Rafael
Professor of History
University of Washington, Seattle

Sandra L. Richards
Professor of Theater
Northwestern University, Illinois

Rebecca J. Scott
Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History & Professor of Law
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Natsu Taylor Saito
Professor of Law
Georgia State University

 

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