Event overview
PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED Due to UCU industrial action on Thursday May 26 Professor Farred’s lecture at Goldsmiths has been cancelled.
PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Due to UCU industrial action on Thursday May 26 Professor Farred’s lecture at Goldsmiths has been cancelled.
This presentation uses photographs of the 1976 Soweto student uprising to argue, in Alain Badiou's terms, for the present as a truncated, punctuated political moment. This presentation locates Soweto 1976, on this its 40th anniversary, as entirely dislocated, as entirely felicitous only to itself. That is, contrary to contemporary South African logic, the event of 1994 (the historic democratic elections) is not the culmination but the betrayal of Soweto.
Chairs: Jean Paul Martinon & Elvira Dyangani Ose
Grant Farred, a native of South Africa, is Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. His most recent work includes Martin Heidegger Saved My Life (Minnesota, 2015), In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (Minnesota, 2014), What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Minnesota, 2004), Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Prickly Paradigm, 2006) and Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple, 2008). He served as General Editor of the Duke University-based journal, The South Atlantic Quarterly, from 2002 to 2010. His is currently at work on projects that include Conciliation (Temple), and The Condemned: Lio Messi, Luis Suarez and the 2014 World Cup (Indiana) and Negro: An Essay on James Baldwin.
Photo: Sam Nzima, Antoinette Sithole and Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying 12-year-old Hector Pieterson moments after he was shot by South African police during a peaceful student demonstration in Soweto, South Africa, 1976. © Sam Nzima, 1976.
The event is free and no booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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