Speakers
Below is the current line-up of speakers.
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Presentation tile: Zombies
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir is a literary and cultural historian based at the Department of English, King’s College London. The winner of the Infosys Prize for the Humanities (2017) and The Humboldt Research Prize (2018), she is the author of Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir and Partition’s Post-Amnesias. In 2020, she and the Franco-Pondicherrian author Ari Gautier co-founded the cultural platform le thinnai Kreyol to promote their vision of a multicultural, plural, and creolised India.
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir is a literary and cultural historian based at the Department of English, King’s College London. The winner of the Infosys Prize for the Humanities (2017) and The Humboldt Research Prize (2018), she is the author of Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir and Partition’s Post-Amnesias. In 2020, she and the Franco-Pondicherrian author Ari Gautier co-founded the cultural platform le thinnai Kreyol to promote their vision of a multicultural, plural, and creolised India.
Barış Ünlü
Presentation title: Cultural Revolution and the Global Right: Perspectives from Academia in Turkey
Barış Ünlü: He has a BA in Economics and MA in Political Science from Ankara University. He completed his PhD in Sociology at SUNY Binghamton in the spring of 2008. His most recent book is: The Turkishness Contract: Its Formation, Functioning, and Crisis (in Turkish), (Ankara: Dipnot Press, 2018). In February 2017, with a State of Emergency decree, he was expelled from Ankara University, where he had been employed for 17 years, for signing the Academics for Peace declaration. He is currently a Philipp Schwartz research fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Barış Ünlü: He has a BA in Economics and MA in Political Science from Ankara University. He completed his PhD in Sociology at SUNY Binghamton in the spring of 2008. His most recent book is: The Turkishness Contract: Its Formation, Functioning, and Crisis (in Turkish), (Ankara: Dipnot Press, 2018). In February 2017, with a State of Emergency decree, he was expelled from Ankara University, where he had been employed for 17 years, for signing the Academics for Peace declaration. He is currently a Philipp Schwartz research fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Professor Celine-Marie Pascale
Presentation title: The Heresy of Commonsense in an Age of Chaos
Professor Celine – Marie Pascale is a leading scholar in the field of language and society. Her research examines how language and representation are used to create and normalize systemic inequalities. Pascale’s scholarship on the relationship between systems of signification and social/economic inequalities has been acknowledged with national and international awards for uniquely important contributions to the field. Her newest book, Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become A Way of Life, is available from Polity as an e-book. Bound books will be released in late October.
Professor Celine – Marie Pascale is a leading scholar in the field of language and society. Her research examines how language and representation are used to create and normalize systemic inequalities. Pascale’s scholarship on the relationship between systems of signification and social/economic inequalities has been acknowledged with national and international awards for uniquely important contributions to the field. Her newest book, Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become A Way of Life, is available from Polity as an e-book. Bound books will be released in late October.
Liv Sovik
Presentation title: The Insider Within: Gaslighting Black activism in a Brazilian university
Liv Sovik is a scholar of Brazilian popular culture, especially music, as an avenue to understanding Brazilian imaginaries. She edited Da diáspora: Identidades e mediações culturais (2003), a major collection of work by Stuart Hall, and is the author of Aqui ninguém é branco [Here No One Is White] (2009) and Tropicália Rex: Música popular e cultura brasileira (2018). She is professora titular of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Take your pick!
Liv Sovik is a scholar of Brazilian popular culture, especially music, as an avenue to understanding Brazilian imaginaries. She edited Da diáspora: Identidades e mediações culturais (2003), a major collection of work by Stuart Hall, and is the author of Aqui ninguém é branco [Here No One Is White] (2009) and Tropicália Rex: Música popular e cultura brasileira (2018). She is professora titular of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Take your pick!