Fwd: TWO DAYS WITH THE SPIRIT OF C.L.R. JAMES - Aaron Kamugisha (31 July) and Keith Hart (1 August)

[Kate Joseph]

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Date: 27 July 2012 13:50
Subject: TWO DAYS WITH THE SPIRIT OF C.L.R. JAMES - Aaron Kamugisha (31 July) and Keith Hart (1 August)
To: Eric Worby <Eric....@wits.ac.za>

The Humanities Graduate Centre Key Thinkers Series, in conjunction with the Reading Group for African Critical Thought (RGFACT) and the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa  (CISA) Presents:

 

TWO DAYS WITH THE SPIRIT OF C.L.R. JAMES

 

C.L.R James (1901-1989), originally from Trinidad, was among the most original, wide-ranging and influential postcolonial thinkers and activists of the 20^th Century.  His work as a political theorist (e.g. Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx and Lenin), historian (The Black Jacobins), literary critic (Mariners, Renegades and Castaways), cricket journalist (Beyond a Boundary) and writer of fiction (Minty Alley) is too little known in South Africa. 

 

Please join us on Tuesday, July 31^st and Wednesday, August 1^st for a sustained engagement with his revolutionary ideas and a consideration of their relevance for our times.  

 

ALL EVENTS BELOW WILL BE HELD AT THE HUMANITIES GRADUATE CENTRE SEMINAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR, SW ENGINEERING BLDG.

 

Tuesday, 31 July

 

16h00-18h00   C.L.R. James’s New Society and Caribbean Freedom.  Lecture by Aaron Kamugisha. Response by Keith Hart.

Graduate Seminar Room, Ground Floor, SW Engineering Building

 

Wednesday, 1 August

 

11h00-13h00   Open Reading Group on selected works by C.L.R. James.  Request electronic or hard copies of readings from: cynthia....@wits.ac.za

Graduate Seminar Room, Ground Floor, SW Engineering Building

 

16h00-18h00  CLR James on World Revolution: Africa and the Second American Revolution.  Lecture by Keith Hart.  Response by Aaron Kamugisha.
Graduate Seminar Room, Ground Floor, SW Engineering Building

 

 

GUEST SPEAKERS:

 

Aaron Kamugisha is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He completed his PhD Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, and was the 2007/8 Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His current work is a study of coloniality, cultural citizenship and freedom in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean, mediated through the social and political thought of C.L.R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is the editor of a special issue of Race & Class “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On” (October 2007), and has published in the Journal of Caribbean History, Race & Class, Proudflesh, Small Axe and The Philosophical Forum. He is currently the Book Reviews Editor and a member of the editorial working committee for the journal Social and Economic Studies. His forthcoming edited collections include the following: Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms, Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State and Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora, all due to be published by Ian Randle Press in 2013.

 

Keith Hart is Extraordinary Visiting Professor in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and Co-Director of the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria. He is also Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Goldsmiths, University of London and Honorary Professor of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban.  His main research has been on Africa and the African diaspora. He has taught at numerous universities, most significantly at Cambridge where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He has contributed to the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of Money in an Unequal World. One recurrent theme of his work has been the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society.  He worked with C.L.R. James in the late 1980s, and, together with Anna Grimshaw, edited James’s posthumously published work, American Civilization (Blackwell, 1993).

 

 

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