Join us on April 5th for Confronting State Violence Across the Globe, the 12th Roma Conference at Harvard University, where an interdisciplinary group of speakers will examine state violence experienced by racialized communities across the world.
The conference has a dual focus:
Firstly, it aims to interrogate the genesis and sources of power and the mechanisms and manifestations of state violence experienced by racialized communities across the world. Secondly, it will endeavor to unpack the concept of “ungrievable lives,” the narratives of the Other, the Oriental, or the Oriental within, and the politics of death that validate state-sponsored violence and injustices.
As Judith Butler says in Frames of War, “An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived, that is, it has never counted as a life at all. We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities and to defend them against the lives of others—even if it means taking those latter lives.” Discussing lives deemed ungrievable will be this year's keynote speaker, Dr. Cornel West, PhD.
Details & registration: https://lnkd.in/ejpH_rgW