The Centre for African Studies at UCT 

Commemorating Africa Day in May

 

invites you to a reading group (in person on the 8th May) and online book discussion with Professor David Scott, Columbia University,  (on the 16th May) about his new book, Irreparable Evil; an essay on Moral and Reparatory History  (2024).

 

Could there be reparations, he asks, for something as evil as new world slavery? 

David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His books include Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality (1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004), Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017). Scott is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project.

All welcome.

For further details, see poster attached.

 

  • To attend the reading group on 8th May, please email Noma-Afrika.Maseti@uct.ac.az for the reading.
  • Please register for the 16th May webinar discussion here:

              https://uct-za.zoom.us/.../tJIsdOqtrD4oHtUXXkS4...