The present call to decolonize epistemic and institutional practices runs deep through the humanities and social sciences. In South Africa, it was accompanied by massive student protests, in some cases leading to burning campuses. These protests sparked many controversies about the role of education, appropriate forms of critique, and the very means of debate. In this lecture, Katharina Schramm pays close attention to different knowledge practices that have emerged in these highly contested spaces. How can we theorize from here? Can we begin to think about fire in generative terms?
Presented by the 2022-2023 Theodor Heuss Professor in Anthropology, Katharina Schramm. Refreshments will be provided.
Katharina Schramm is Professor and Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where she is also a member of the “Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence. She is facilitating the research group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities” which is invested in a critical public anthropology at the interface of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology. Her own work focuses on race as an unruly object in political and scientific practice.
Presented by The New School for Social Research.
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