The subject of the second Princeton African Humanities Colloquium (PAHC) to be held at Princeton University on November 13-14 is African Memory and The Crisis of the Present. The colloquium's premise is that the question of memory both informs and haunts debates about the nature of the postcolonial state in Africa, the practice of politics, historical recollection, and imaginative being. The colloquium will explore how memory has been deployed and channeled in positive and negative ways in the evolution of postcolonial African societies. Participants will discuss the role of memory in the formation of collective and individual identities in Africa; its use as a tool of resistance against domination and as a resource for orientation in the present; and its function as a conduit for opening up future possibilities in regard to questions of justice and citizenship.
McCORMICK 106 | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | NOVEMBER 14 | 10a TO 5p
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