When: Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 18:30
Where: Hörsaal III, NIG, main floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Speaker: Akwugo Emejulu (University of Sheffield, UK) in conversation with Dorit Geva (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)
Organisation: Research area Gender and Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Abstract
How do we think about politics, solidarity and community without the framework of the human? How might we think about ourselves, our social relations and the world around us without the organising principle of humanity? What do we lose—but also, crucially, what new possibilities are created—when we reject the human? What if a different kind of feminist politics can be built by embracing the ambivalent, the liminal and the precarious? Akwugo Emejulu will be in conversation with Dorit Geva to discuss her book, Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press 2022; in German Reclam Verlag 2024). Through dialogue with the audience and a collective poetry reading, they will explore what it means to take seriously Black women's non-belonging in the category of the human and the grief, the danger but also the sheer pleasure that this non-belonging makes possible?
