Whiteness and the Crisis
Taking his cue from Frantz Fanon’s declaration that coloniality is a “world of statues,” the first lecture examines how the Fallism movement created by Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter has been countered by a transnational reassertion of monumental, eugenic whiteness from Charlottesville to Christchurch.
Date: 21 May 2019, 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room 23
Speaker: Professor Nick Mirzoeff (New York University)
Organiser: Professor Dan Hicks (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
Host: Pitt Rivers Museum
Part of: Astor Visiting Lectureship: 'Whiteness and the Crisis'
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whiteness-and-the-crisis-tickets-59615802470
Audience: Public
Editor: Laura Spence