{"id":18566,"date":"2020-10-01T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:34:42","slug":"research-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2020\/research-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Research Talks\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

That Gurnah, not Ng\u0169g\u0129, Won the Nobel Prize: On Taste and Distaste for Africanity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bryan Mukandi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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November 3, 2022
\n16:00 – 18:00
\n2017 Dunton Tower<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an introduction to a recent Paris Review<\/em> interview, Namwali Serpell suggests that Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong\u2019o hasn\u2019t got a Nobel Prize because he\u2019s a radical or a revolutionary. Dr. Mukandi\u2019s paper argues that yes, the snub is ultimately political, but that the sticking point should be thought in terms of the cultural space (or lack thereof) afforded to African descent folks in global publics \u2013 or the acceptable terms of engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emancipation and the Politics of Identity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Firoze Manji<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 18, 2019
15:00 – 17:00
1811 Dunton Tower

<\/strong>Institute of African Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I consider the politics of identity in relation to the concept of “African”. I trace the origin of the term used by Europe as a shorthand for the non-human or lesser-being to its emergence as an identity intimately linked to a struggle for human emancipation. I will discuss the consequences of delinking that identity from emancipatory struggles during the post-independence and neoliberal era which have resulted in the descent into ethnicism.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That Gurnah, not Ng\u0169g\u0129, Won the Nobel Prize: On Taste and Distaste for Africanity Dr. Bryan Mukandi November 3, 2022 16:00 – 18:00 2017 Dunton Tower Abstract In an introduction to a recent Paris Review interview, Namwali Serpell suggests that Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong\u2019o hasn\u2019t got a Nobel Prize because he\u2019s a radical or a revolutionary. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27409,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions\/27409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}