Thursday, September 22, 2016 // 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Seloua Luste Boulbina, Etienne Balibar, Ali Benmaklouf, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, moderated by Madeleine Dobie
Table ronde en français / Roundtable in French

Tracing the migration of ideas—between countries and among theoretical and artistic practices—is an important dimension of the decolonization of knowledge. How do ideas cross borders? If translation is one route, ideas also circulate within linguistic areas, for example between former colonial powers and colonized countries. If western thought is widely disseminated throughout the world, what movements are occurring in other directions, for instance in the exchanges between contemporary art, philosophy and history? In this cross-disciplinary roundtable, five leading thinkers share their perspectives on the movement of ideas across media, disciplines, languages, and regions, considering how art and philosophy come together in the decolonization of knowledge. The discussion will be preceded by screenings of four recent short films that explore the politics of decolonization in an experimental visual language: Le Voyage à Bandung (Jean-François Boclé, 2015, 5 min.); Corps à corps (Louisa Babari and Celio Paillard, 2015, 8 min.); The Storyteller (Katia Kameli, 2012, 12 min.); Kaleta Kaleta (Emo de Medeiros, 2015, 6 min.).