Event overview
Visual Culures Public Programme event with Sean Meighoo
Sean Meighoo (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University) will present a reading from his book, Postcolonial Derrida, to be followed by a conversation with Adnan Madani on the complicated relationship between Derrida’s philosophical work and postcolonial theory.
In Postcolonial Derrida, Sean Meighoo argues that Derrida’s philosophical work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such. Critically reading some of Derrida’s most famous texts in addition to some of his lesser-known ones, Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with a diverse range of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia as well as African American and French feminist thinkers and writers including Toni Morrison, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Hélène Cixous, V.S. Naipaul, Nelson Mandela, M.K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Nov 2025 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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