May 4, 2006
Race, justice topics at May 5 symposium
A symposium, “Fictions of the Archive, Rumors of Insurrection,” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 5, in the Petersen Room of Allen Library.
The symposium has been organized by a UW working group that gathers faculty and graduate students from across the disciplines to read recent scholarship on theories of race and justice.
Speakers include Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman, both of the University of California, Berkeley. They are the co-organizers of the Redress Project.
Best, an associate professor of English, is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (2004) and is currently at work on a study of rumor, promiscuous speech, and the slave’s archive.
Hartman, also in the English Department, specializes in feminism, critical race theory, and African American literature and culture. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (1997) and the forthcoming Lose Your Mother: Memory and the Afterlife of Slavery. Her work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Callaloo, Between Woman and Nation: Nationalism, Transnational Feminisms and the State (1999) and Lorna Simpson: For the Sake of the Viewer (1992).
The symposium is sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Allen Library. It is free and open to the public.
