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  2. Race, Gender and Cultural Geography

Microseminars

cover of mckittrick's book, "dear science"
Course Number
HUM 597A

Race, Gender and Cultural Geography

Credit Hour Info
1 Credit
Instructor(s)
Stephanie Clare (English)
Janelle Rodriques (English)
Meeting Location
CMU 202
Meeting Dates/Times

Fridays, 10:30am-12:00pm + attendance at guest lecture

Friday, 6 October, 10:30am-12:00pm: Wynter and McKittrick, ‘Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?: Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations’

Friday, 20 October, 10:30am-12:00pm: Wynter, ‘Map for Territory’ + Walter Mignolo, ‘What Does it Mean to be Human?’

Friday, 27 October, 10:30am-12:00pm: McKittrick, ‘On Plantations, Prisons, and a Black Sense of Place’

Friday, 3 November, 10:30am-12:00pm: selections from McKittrick, Dear Science

Thursday, 30 November, 6:30-8:00pm: McKittrick Lecture, "Twenty Dreams"

Friday, 1 December, 10:30am-12:00pm: conversation with McKittrick in attendance

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21st Century
American Ethnic Studies
American Studies
Black Studies
Capitalism
Critical Infrastructure Studies
Cultural Studies
Feminisms
Gender and Sexuality Studies
GWSS
Postcolonialism
Posthumanism
Race
Systemic Racism
Visiting Scholars

This microseminar anticipates Katherine McKittrick’s Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Fall 2023. In preparation for this lecture and visit, we will be reading select works of both McKittrick and Sylvia Wynter, a Jamaican critic with whose works McKittrick is in dialogue. Our readings will begin with their contemporary conversations and end with selections from McKittrick’s Dear Science to interrogate our understandings of gender, race, and cultural geography, and how these concepts relate both with each other and are permeated by our understandings of what it means to be ‘human’ in a post-slavery world. This one (1) credit course is open to graduate students.