Op 22 november houdt Tony Bogues een lezing in het Koninklijk
Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, in het kader van de expositie Zwart &
wit. De titel van zijn lezing
luidt: Freedom and emancipation; reflexions on post-slavery and the search for
freedom.
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| Anthony Bogues |
Tony Bogues
discusses the differences between human emancipation and freedom. Being
emancipated does not necessarily make a former slave free; rather, the ability
to create one's own freedom does.
Anthony
Bogues is currently the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies, and an
affiliated Professor of Political Science and Modern Culture and Media at Brown
University. He is currently the Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor
at the Stanford Humanities Center for 2012. He is also a Honorary
Professor at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town,
South Africa and Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Addis Ababa
University, Ethiopia.
Bogues has
written extensively, including: Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political
Thought of C.L.R. James (1997); Black Heretics and Black
Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003); and Empire
of Liberty: Power, Freedom and Desire ( 2010). He is the editor
of two volumes of Caribbean intellectual history, After Man - The
Human: Critical Essays on the Thought of Sylvia Wynter (2006); and The
George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonization (2011). He has
published over 60 essays in the fields of intellectual history, political
theory, cultural and literary history and is an associate editor of the journal Small
Axe and member of the editorial collective of the journal Boundary
2.
Bogues
recently co-curated a national exhibition on Haitian Art, titled, Reframing
Haiti –Art, History and Performativity. He is currently working
on three major projects, a political/philosophical project on questions of the
human, freedom, human emancipation and the black intellectual tradition; co-curating
a major exhibition on Haitian art for 2014 in Paris and Cape Town, South
Africa; and an intellectual/political biography of Michael Manley and Jamaican
postcolonial politics.
Professor
Bogues served as chief of staff to then Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.
Wayne Modest van het Tropenmuseum zal als moderator
optreden.
Locatie: KIT Linnaeusstraat 2, Amsterdam
Tijd, expositie en lezing: 16.00 uur rondleiding. De lezing begint
om 17.00 uur.
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