Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
When: Friday, March 8, 2024 12:30 pm
Where: Kaplan Hall 193
Register here to attend. A light lunch will be provided. An RSVP is required to attend.
Join us for our Kanner Forum featuring Dr. Habiba Ibrahim, Professor and Associate Chair of English at the University of Washington. In this presentation Dr. Ibrahim will discuss her recent work, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life (NYU Press, 2021). Black Age tracks how age for people of the Black diaspora has been historically constituted as “untimely.” Black Age argues that over various phases of the transatlantic slave trade, the Black body had been separated from hegemonic relations to liberal humanist measures of time on various scales. Constituted through processes of violence and reasoning that alienated bodies from historical, developmental, and legal schedules of time, Black age became contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Yogita Goyal, Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA.
Habiba Ibrahim is Professor and Associate Chair of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black
Life (2021) and Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012).
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