Master Class in Historiography Public Lecture
Abstract:
“What is this present?" Foucault’s question, building on Kant's, presents a challenge to us all: How to understand the capacious presence and spread of invocations of colonialism, “the colonial,” on the one hand, and a set of virulent affirmations that democracy is dying, or in fact dead, on the other — with no mutual recognition of the two? This lecture looks at some of the modalities in which such recognition and its absence appear.
Bio:
Ann Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, founding Director of The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/) devoted to bringing together fellows from around the world with the work of major thinkers who have shaped the course of social inquiry, and a founding editor of the journal Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon.
Her books include Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016), Thinking with Balibar, co-edited (2020); Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination, ed. (2013); Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002); Tensions of Empire, ed. with Frederick Cooper (1997); Race and the Education of Desire (1995).Her most recent book is Interior Frontiers: Essays in the entrails of inequality, (2022, Oxford).
https://events.ceu.edu/2023-05-17/shatterzones-inequality-histories-imperial-present