5:00pm
26 April 2018
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University

David Scott is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. His work is concerned with the reconceptualization of the way we think the story of the colonial past for the postcolonial present. He is the author of Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014) and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017). Professor Scott is currently working on a biography of Stuart Hall, as well as a study of slavery, evil, and repair. He is editor of Small Axe, a journal of criticism, and director of the Small Axe Project, which is involved in a number of special initiatives around visual, translation, literary, and historiographical issues.

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