Convened by the Other Universals Consortium

Anti-colonial Internationalisms
Identity, identification & cultural citizenship
The comparative method

Join us for the Other Universals Summer/Winter Institute open sessions - a programme of keynote lectures, roundtables, workshops, screenings and book launches, running from the 12th to 16th August 2024.

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The Other Universals Summer/Winter Institute revolves around the ways in which equality and likeness-in-difference, universality and particularity have been imagined, lived and argued from anti-imperial vantage points in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle-East and South Asia.

Central to Other Universals’ concerns are political debates, discussions and aesthetic and literary practices of the late-colonial period that continue to articulate and animate desires for equality and solidarity across multiple subaltern locations in postcolonial spaces. The summer/winter school in Johannesburg will especially focus on three interrelated themes that iterate these concerns:

1. Anti-colonial Internationalisms
2. Identity, Identification & Cultural Citizenship
3. The Comparative Method

Circling these three thematics, we think of the summer/winter school as an opportunity to speak from particular locations, and from within particular ‘traditions’ of anti-colonial, nationalist, emancipatory, and intellectual formations - with their own predicaments and lineaments, points of friction and questions of consternation - and yet, with a shared investment in thinking about intellectual formations and aesthetic practice across these worlds, that speak to and beyond the emancipatory or inhibitive contours the framing of ‘the nation’ has given us.

Click here to read the full framing statement