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Department seminar: David Scott

The Department of Social Anthropology is happy to announce the upcoming seminar with Professor David Scott (Columbia University).

Book cover of Stuart Hall's Voice
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The Department of Social Anthropology is happy to announce the upcoming seminar with Professor David Scott. David Scott will discuss his book Stuart Hall′s Voice. Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).

Abstract from Duke University Press:
Stuart Hall’s Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall’s intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book—which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death—as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hall’s work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hall’s style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism than in terms of listening. 


BIO:
David Scott is Professor of Anthropology in the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and books, including Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), and Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). He is the coeditor with Charles Hirschkind of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). He is also the editor of the journal Small Axe.

Light refreshments will be served in the Corner Room after the talk. All interested are welcome!