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. Stoler is the director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She has worked for some thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. Amongst others, she has written Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002), Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009) and Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016), and Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality (2022).

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