How not to know. Forgetting as an (a)vocation

Third seminar in the "Dissonant Memories and Movements" cycle, organized by Prof. Martina Tazzioli and Prof. Annaclaudia Martini.

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. She is Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. For nearly thirty years, she has worked on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire and the ethnography of archives. He has written, among others, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002), Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009), Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016), and Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality (2022).

The seminar will be held, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Aula Prodi (Department of History and Cultures, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2).