Wellesley College: Achille Mbembe
Small Faculty/Fellows seminar with Achille Mbembe (Jordan Lecturer)
Short readings, including excerpts from Critique of Black Reason
Tuesday, March 20th from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. at NCH (dinner will be served)
Professor Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon and obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. and then the Executive Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal, from 1996 to 2000. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, and held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and Yale University. He has written extensively on African history and politics. He is the acclaimed author of On the Postcolony (2000/2001) and, most recently, Critique of Black Reason (2013/2017). In 2017, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign honorary Member.
When you RSVP for the seminar with Achille Mbembe, we will forward to you a copy of the reading.
Rsvp by: Friday, March 16th at noon to nchadmin@wellesley.edu (insert subject: “Mbembe Seminar yes” – no text required; for inquiries, please use message text without “yes” – yes messages will not be read!
Please note that Prof. Mbembe will give the Jordan Lecture on Monday, March 19th, at 5:00 p.m. The title of the lecture is: “Decolonization and Future Knowledges”.
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