New Online Series - Heated Conversations
You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series
Heated Conversations
Sharad Chari will speak on The Storm
This is the fourth chapter in a short book called Gramsci at Sea, in four moves: first, it reads Gramsci's notes on oceanic themes and proposes that his form of thought is oceanic; second, it critiques the neologisms 'extractivism' and 'ocean economy' in relation to the crisis of the oceans today; third, it offers a terraqueous reading of imperial oceanics; and fourth, it reads a set of Black 'aquafuturist' artists for their conception of 'the storm.' This seminar focuses on this last chapter as it considers the archives of oceanic struggle that persist, and that have the capacity of storming different shores in unanticipated ways.
Sharad Chari is an Associate Professor in Geography affiliated to Critical Theory and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and a Research Associate at WiSER. Most recently, he is co-editor with Melanie Samson and Mark Hunter of Ethnographies of Power (Wits UP, 2022) and author of Gramsci at Sea (Minnesota UP, 2023) and Apartheid Remains (Duke UP, 2024). He is currently working with Beverly Palesa Ditsie on a project of queer critical biography.
Wednesday, 19th April 2023
6pm
Register here:
https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrfuCuqjkiGdOMGJQ29A2S4ayAfydhkPUq
Heated Conversations is a new seminar series convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
As global warming produces rising seas, falling dam levels and excessive droughts, generating new levels of multi-crisis in the world-now, so too are our conversations and discourses heating up in multiple ways. This seminar series takes up these questions of anthropogenic escalation and pedagogical shifts of gear. It does so in a context in which strengthening Southern bodies of knowledge is ever more crucial to engaging collectively with and comprehending these complex new rubrics and material dimensions. A forum broadly dedicated to the literary and cultural humanities, the seminar is hospitably open to wide participation from as many parts of the world as possible and will invite speakers to offer generative interventions for discussion and debate.
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at Wits University; Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at WiSER, Wits.