March Meeting 2022: The Afterlives of the Postcolonial

Walter D. Mignolo’s research focuses on exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices (injustices?) and on exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality.

Ngaire Blankenberg is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (2021–present).

Amy Niang is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Africa Institute, Sharjah. Her research interests are broadly centred around the history of state formation and sovereignty, Africa’s international relations and the history of geopolitics.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights and humanitarian, refugee and national security law and critical race theory.

Khalil Rabah is best known for rewriting and inventing history. Emerging from his deep involvement and background in architecture, his works aim to provide an alternative vision that challenges public perceptions and expectations.

Contemporary artist Rachid Koraichi’s work is influenced by a fascination with signs: symbols, glyphs and ciphers drawn from a variety of languages and cultures.

Russell Rickford is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He specialises in African- American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition and transnational social movements.

Hrair Sarkissian’s photographs reflect on personal memories, using subjectivity as a way to navigate stories that official histories are unable to tell. Using traditional documentary techniques in large-scale works, he engages the viewer in a profound consideration of what lies behind the surface of the images, thereby re-evaluating larger historical or social narratives.

T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics and ecology. He is Professor in Art History, Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, as well as founder and director of the Center for Creative Ecologies at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Megan Tamati-Quennell is a writer and curator of modern and contemporary Māori and Indigenous art.

Tina Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media. She is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art.

Suraj Yengde is a research associate at the Department of African and African American Studies in Harvard University.

Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He specialises in postcolonial studies, visual culture and critical theory.