April 10th, 2025
4:30-6:30 pm EDT
Snell Library room 160 and Online via Livestream
360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Settler colonialism, slavery, migration, and imperial war have been integral to the emergence of the U.S. nation, state, and economy, and the consequences of these histories continue today. In this lecture Lowe examines the durability of imbricated colonial practices of enclosure, reproduction, and schooling, and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them, and asks: In what ways does a reckoning with colonial histories unsettle and transform the way we understand history, capitalism, and the political present? If this colonial past is not “over,” but is absented from national memory, is this longue durée something still unthought, that is, a web of relation not fully represented, even as we are reminded it is something we once knew?
Schedule:
4:30–5:00: Hors D’oeuvres
5:00–5:15: Introductions
5:15–6:00: Talk
6:00–6:15: Q&A
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