Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 5:00 PM
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003, UNC-CH

Adom Getachew (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago) will discuss her award-winning book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. In this book, Prof. Getachew reconstructs the animating questions, debates and institutional visions anti-colonial nationalists of the Black Atlantic pursued during the height of decolonization. Cemil Aydin, Professor of History; Emily Burrill, Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the African Studies Center; Susan Pennybacker, Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Prof. of European History; and Mark Reeves, PhD Candidate in the Department of History will contribute to the discussion. This talk is part of the Scholars in Conversation series sponsored by History Department, Carolina Seminar on Global History, and the Carolina Seminar in African Ecology and Social Processes and is open to all area faculty and graduate students in any discipline.

Light refreshments will be served.   For more information, please Contact: Stacey Sewall sewall@email.unc.edu.