⏰ 7:00 PM
🗓️ Thursday, Feb. 26
📍 Hall Center Conference Hall (and online via Crowdcast)
Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese academic, award-winning writer, economist, musician, and the Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University. His lectures and research focus on postcolonial theory, economic policies, development, econometrics, epistemology and the history of religious ideas. Sarr’s talk will focus on African futures, drawing from his forthcoming work, The Making of the Present/La Fabrique du Présent, and the implications of this concept for the rest of the world.
Sarr was awarded the Grand Prix of Literary Associations in 2016 for his essay “Afrotopia,” which argues for a conceptual decolonization of knowledge and a reappropriation of the metaphors of their own future by Africans. In 2021, Sarr was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.
Co-sponsored with the Kansas African Studies Center, French Center of Excellence, the Center for Global and International Studies, Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, the Center for Cyber Social Dynamics, Department of African & African American Studies, and French, Francophone & Italian Studies.
Can't make it in person? Watch live online at crowdcast.io/c/felwine
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Plus, don't miss Afterwords with Felwine Sarr, in conversation with Peter Ukpokodu, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of African and African-American Studies. Enjoy pastries and further discussion the morning following Sarr's talk!
Afterwords: 10:00 AM Friday, February 27.
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