Please join the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) for a public lecture by Professor Siba Grovogui on Monday, 24 October at the District Six Homecoming Centre at 5:30pm.
The title of the lecture is "No Partial Public Sympathies: A Categorical Imperative Unlike Any Other" and forms part of the annual CHR Winter School programme in partnership with the University of Fort Hare and the University of Minnesota which gathers this year around the question of "The Minor".
Time: 17h30
Venue: District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
RSVP: centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za by Friday, 21 October
Should you wish to attend the lecture, please RSVP to centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za by Friday, 21 October.
The title of the lecture is "No Partial Public Sympathies: A Categorical Imperative Unlike Any Other" and forms part of the annual CHR Winter School programme in partnership with the University of Fort Hare and the University of Minnesota which gathers this year around the question of "The Minor".
Event details
Date: Monday, 24 October 2022Time: 17h30
Venue: District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
RSVP: centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za by Friday, 21 October
Background
The principle of ‘no partial public sympathy’ has for four centuries guided political and institutional experimentation in the Africana diaspora from Palmares to Haiti. It comes from a unique sense of political subjectivity on the part of sections of the Africana diaspora and a self-assigned historical mission on their part to heal the world in the wake of enslavement and colonialism. This categorical and institutionalized imperative has therefore been central to the political aspiration of generations of African-descended people and has application beyond the context of its inception. The goal of this public lecture is not only to speak to its historical manifestations in Africana thought, an event lost on modern political theory and philosophical systems, but to also point to the tragedy of its non-recognition as source of much tragedy in the world today – including in Africa.About the speaker
Professor Grovogui teaches in Africana Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Sovereigns, Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-determination in International Law (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Institutions and Order (Palgrave, April 2006). Grovogui is currently completing two manuscripts: 1) The Gaze of Copernicus: Postcolonialism, Serendipity, and International Relations and 2) No Partial Public Sympathies: Quilombo, Haiti, and Africana Humanisms.Should you wish to attend the lecture, please RSVP to centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za by Friday, 21 October.
