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Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Universit茅), 'Vernacular Poetry and Humanist Culture in Golden Age Spain: S谩nchez de las Brozas and Mart铆n V谩zquez Siruela, annotators of Garcilaso and G贸ngora'.

25 November (Week 8), 5 pm: Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Universit茅) .

Walter Rodney Annual Lecture, Tuesday 25 November, 5.15-7pm We are honoured to welcome Prof. David Scott (Ruth & William Lubic Professor, Dept of Anthropology, Columbia University).

路 Prof. Scott is the author of, among others, Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004), Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and Stuart Hall鈥檚 Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017), and coeditor of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (2006). He is currently completing a book tentatively titled 鈥淚rreparable Evil: New World Slavery in Moral History,鈥� and working on a biography of Stuart Hall. Scott is also the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe, and director of the Small Axe Project. In this context he is also the curatorial director of the exhibitions, Caribbean Queer Visualities (Belfast, Glasgow, 2016, 2017), and Visual Life of Social Affliction (Nassau, Miami, Rotterdam, 2019, 2020), director of the Caribbean Modernisms project, and has recently been appointed the curatorial director of the forthcoming Kingston Biennial, 2022, Pressure.

Tuesday 25th November, 5.15pm. All welcome & refreshments will be available.

The guest speaker for the annual Walter Rodney lecture this year is, Professor David Scott, the Ruth and William Lubic Professor at Columbia University. He will give a talk entitled, 鈥淥n Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney鈥檚 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa between Revolution and Reparation鈥�