Keynote Lectures

Professor Wynter taught Hispanic literature at the University of the West Indies, and at the University of California at San Diego, before being appointed to become chairperson of African and Afro-American Studies, and professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University in 1977. She is now Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

Wynter's publications range from a novel, The Hills of Hebron (1962) through discussions of a vast range of topics such as physics, film, hip hop, economics, history, neurobiology, critical theory, literature, Christianity to an ongoing philosophically critical  investigation of Western humanist ontology, as in the widely quoted “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” (CR: The New Centennial Review, 3:3, (Fall 2003): 257-337).

Professor Wynter will give her speech Saturday, March 28, 11:00-12:00 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

The glossary of this presentation can be found here.

Please note: Wynter suggests to read the following texts in preparation for her keynote address:

• Wynter, Sylvia: "The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism."  Boundary2 12.2 (1984): 19-70.
  
  The article is also available on JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/302808
  
  
• Wynter, Sylvia: "1492: a New World View."  Race, Discourse and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View.  Ed. Vera Lawrence Hyatt and Rex Nettleford.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 5-57.
  
  An excerpt of the article is also available online: http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/ant/WYNTER01.ANT
  
  
• Wynter, Sylvia: "Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of 'Identity' and What It's Like to Be Black." National Identity and Socio-Political Change: Latin America Between Marginalisation and Integration. Ed. Mercedes Duran-Cogan and Antonio Gomez-Moriana. New York: Garland, 2000. 

For an interview with Wynter, please check the following website:

http://www.africaresource.com/proudflesh/issue4/wynter.html

For a selective list of publications, please check the following website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wynter

Kimberley L. Phillips is associate professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She teaches courses on African American and American cultural and social history. Her work includes, amongst others, AlabamaNorth: African American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland (1999).

The keynote address of Philips on the CAAR conference is titled "We Who Search for Freedom": Black Americans and Global Struggles. Dr. Philips will give her speech Friday, March 27, 11:00-12:00 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

For more information on Kimberley Philips, please check the following website:

http://www.wm.edu/history/directory.php?personid=6492 

Orlando Patterson is a historical and cultural sociologist professor at Harvard University. His academic interests include, amongst others: the culture and practice of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; the sociology of underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean; and the problems of gender and familial relations in the black societies of the Americas. Professor Patterson is the author of numerous academic papers and 5 major academic books including Slavery and Social Death (1982), Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991), and The Ordeal of Integration (1997).

The keynote speech of Patterson on the CAAR conference is titled Race, Slavery and Freedom: How the West's Encounter With the Other Shaped Its Dominant Value. Professor Patterson will give his speech Wednesday, March 25, 19:00-20:00 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

For more information on Orlando Patterson, please check the following website:

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/patterson/

Alan Rice is Reader at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. He has a research focus on African American literature and culture and the black Atlantic. His monograph Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic was published in 2003. His work has appeared in Current Writing, Atlantic Studies, and Journal of American Studies and other transatlantic journals.

Rice's keynote address on the CAAR conference is titled The Black Atlantic Comes of Age: Curating, Researching and Teaching in Gilroy's Wake. Dr. Rice will give his speech Friday, March 27, 16:30-17:30 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

For more information on Alan Rice and his work, please check the following website:

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/humanities/staff/rice.htm
www.uclan.ac.uk/abolition 
www.revealinghistories.org.uk

Brycchan Carey is Reader in English literature at Kingston University in Surrey, United Kingdom. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century studies, and works primarily on the literature and culture of slavery and abolition. Brycchan Carey has written and edited a wide variety of publications, including British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (2005).

Carey's keynote speech on the CAAR conference is titled "You Surpass Holland and Germany in this Thing": Remembering the 1688 Germantown
Antislavery Protest. Dr. Carey will give his speech Thursday, March 26, 11:00-12:00 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

For more information on Brycchan Carey, please check the following website:

www.brycchancarey.com

With Naming the Money, the internationally celebrated artist Lubaina Himid will show her colorful installation of life-size, cut-out figures. Praised by the BBC as a "spectacular feast for the eyes", Naming the Money reflects in a personal and multilayered manner upon the slave-based economic and cultural foundations of Europe and the transatlantic realm. The figures are African slaves and servants which are dressed in sumptuous clothes and which have poetic text fragments (written on accounting paper) attached on their backs. As a group, the African servants tell the story of slavery, servitude, and the attempt to feel alive in a world in which they were made invisible. With her installation, Himid reflects forcefully upon past and present diasporic experiences.

Himid will give a keynote speech within the context of Naming the Money. The keynote address is titled What are monuments for? Art of the black diaspora possible landmarks on the urban map. Himid will give her speech Thursday, march 26, 16:30-17:30 in the lecture auditorium HS2010.

For more information on Lubaina Himid and Naming the Money, please check the following websites:

http://wwar.com/masters/h/himid-lubaina.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART19241.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/roots/2004/01/himid.shtml