"Caribbean Futures: Surviving the Anthropecene"
2017 Robert G. Mead Lecture
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 3:30 pm
Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room
The 2017 Robert G. Mead Lecturer is Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, and Professor of Sociology, Drexel University.
The risks and existential threats facing the nations of the Caribbean in the early 21st century are Professor Sheller’s starting point for asking what geographical imagery and political imagination is necessary to describe the contemporary Caribbean. How is this entire region being re-spatialized, re-scaled and re-imagined under the impact of natural disasters, environmental crises, and wider contemporary processes of neoliberalization, planetary urbanization, and global infrastructural restructuring?
Based on Sheller’s book in progress, Island Futures, her talk will draw on the vibrant praxis of Caribbean theorists, artists, and writers to trace how Caribbean people and states are reimagining their place in the world to produce cultures that might help all of us to survive the Anthropocene.
If you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact El Instituot at 860-486-5508 or elinstituto@uconn.edu by Sept. 25.
Sponsored by: El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies; Human Rights Institute; Vice President for Research Scholarship Facilitation Fund
For more information, contact: El Instituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu