A series of three lectures with the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and chair of the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University.
What does it mean to live collectively in the afterlife of a catastrophe?
How do we frame the traumatic crises of the 21st century鈥� life post-9/11, pandemics, ethno-nationalist autocracies, imperial invasions, border brutalities and refugee crises鈥攊n a vocabulary that encapsulates responsibility, accountability, agentic expression, and above all, the shifting registers of selfhood?
Through a series of three lectures The Time of our Lives interrogates the public culture of 鈥榯rauma鈥� in the current climate of inflammatory polarisation. Join Homi Bhabha as he deconstructs and reconfigures new schema for understanding the politics of identity, culture wars, and the on-going 鈥渨ar of wounds and words鈥� that haunts the moral and political economy of the US, alongside anti-minoritarian racial or ethnic equivalents around the world.
LECTURE 1:
LIVING IN THE AFTERLIFE : ON BEING UNPREPARED
How do the retroactive afterlives of slavery, decolonisation, or sexual violence, inform the purgatorial temporality of imminence and anxiety underwriting life in the 21st century?
Please join Professor Bhabha, The 91桃色 and TORCH teams for a drinks reception after this first lecture.