Reading seminar on Achille Mbembe
In 2022 it was announced that Prof. Achille Mbembe would be one of eight new honorary doctors at UiB. Ahead of Mbembe’s appointment and guest lecture in Bergen, the Department of Social Anthropology organizes a reading seminar on selected works. The seminar is open to all and requires no registration.
Main content
Prof. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen will give a brief introduction to Mbembe and to selected works, followed by an open discussion.
Texts to be discussed
• Mbembe, Achille, and Carolyn Shread. 2021. “The universal right to breathe.” Critical Inquiry 47(2): 58-62.
• Mbembe, Achille. 2021. “Futures of life and futures of reason.” Public Culture 33(1): 11-33.
• Mbembe, Achille. 2018. “The Well of fantasies”. In Critique of Black Reason. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Pp. 40-76
• Mbembe, Achille. 2003. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.