Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episodes
drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Maris...
Atiya Husain on No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Atiya Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology/Sociology at Williams College. Her work has been p...
Celina de Sá on Diaspora without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Celina de Sá is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from the SF Bay Area, she received her Ph...
Julia Elyachar On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Julia Elyachar is an author, anthropologist, and political economist. She was trained in anthropology, economics, history of political and econo...
Élika Ortega on Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Élika Ortega is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Ortega writes about t...
Margaret J. Wiener on Magic's Translation: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Margaret J. Wiener is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book Visible and Invisible Realms: Power...
Mary Poole and Meitamei Olol Dapash on Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mary Poole is a historian of U.S. and African history, with an emphasis on histories of social movements, racial capitalism, colonialism, feminist...
Wendell H. Marsh on Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wendell Marsh is an Associate Professor of African Literature and Philosophy at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. His work bridges...
José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr.José Miguel Palacios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at California State University Long Beach. His work explores th...
Caroline Fowler on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr.Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute. In this conversation, we discuss her most recent...
Anna LaQuawn Hinton on Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anna LaQuawn Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture in the English Department at the University...
Tavia Nyong'o on Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Tavia Nyong’o is the William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University, with award-winning books including ...
Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Fatima Seck and today’s discussion is with Dr. Danielle Roper, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Amber Jamilla Musser on Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Amber Jamilla Musser, a professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at th...
Philip Janzen on An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Philip Janzen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He studies the cultural and i...
Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode includes discussions of suicide within the historical contexts of slavery, colonization, and empire. Please listen with care and be mindf...
Therà Alyce Pickens on What Had Happened Was
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Therà A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (P’05) and her P...
Jessie Cox on Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Jessie Cox, an Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. Active as a composer, drummer, and scholar, his work th...
Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz on Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Devin Bryson and Dr. Molly Enz.  Dr. Bryson is a professor of French and Francophone studies and Gender and Women's stud...
Jody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Jody Benjamin, a social and cultural historian of western Africa with expertise in the period between 1650 and 1850. He re...
Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia,where she is also an a...
Laura Helton on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Laura Helton, a historian who writes about collections and how they shape our world. She is an Associate Professor of Engl...
Mary Hicks on Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Fatima Seck and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the At...
Benjamin Barson on Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the...
Bryan Sinche on Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Bryan Sinche, a Professor and Chair of English at the University of Hartford. He has written more than twenty essays and r...
Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Professor Jenny Shaw, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama where she teaches classes in the historie...
Nana Osei-Kofi on AfroSwedish: Places of Belonging
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi, (she/her) a Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Language, Culture...
Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté on Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Étienne Achille and Dr. Oana Panaïté. Dr. Achille is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villan...
Julia Hauser on A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Julia Hauser, a cultural historian interested in the entanglements of Europe, the US and Asia, mainly India and the Middle...
Imani D. Owens on Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Imani D. Owens, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She studies and teaches African A...
Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Joshua Myers on Of Black Study
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Autumn Womack on The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial data, 1880-1930
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Mark Deets on A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Mark W. Deets, an Assistant Professor of African and World History and the Director of the Center for American Studies and...
Marlene Daut on Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Marlene Daut , she is a Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the recentl...
Eziaku Nwokocha on Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Eziaku Nwokocha, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. She is a schola...
Drew Dalton on The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Isaac Joslin who holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Francophone Studies. Currently Assistant Professor of Fra...
Tina Post on Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Tina Post, an Assistant Professor of English and Theater and Performance at the University of Chicago. Her recent fir...
Rima Vesely-Flad on Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, she is the author of Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Stru...
Jasmine Nichole Cobb on New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Nichole Cobb is Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, as well as ...
Darieck Scott on Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Darieck Scott, a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Extravag...
Perry Zurn on Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Drabinski hosts this conversation with Perry Zurn, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. In addi...
Mari Crabtree on My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Mari Crabtree, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Car...
Shanna Greene Benjamin on Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Shanna Greene Benjamin, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, ...
Stefanie Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral Return in African American Culture
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John E. Drabinski hosts a conversation with Stefanie Dunning, Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The author of numerous essays ...
Sarah Jane Cervenak on Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John E. Drabinski hosts a discussion with Sarah Jane Cervenak, who teaches in the departments of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Ame...
Andrea A. Davis on Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean & African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Andrea Davis, she is an Associate Professor at York University,Toronto in the Department of Humanities and the Academic Co...
Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is with Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford, editors of a new collection of essays entitled Lyotard and Critical Practice, published ...
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has writ...
Christopher Freeburg on Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Professor Christopher Freeburg, Dr. Freeburg is the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor of English at the University of I...
Habiba Ibrahim on Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is with Habiba Ibrahim, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. In addition...
Nicholas Harrison on Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Nicholas Harrison, he is a Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at King’s College London. During hisstudent...
Rinaldo Walcott on The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is with Rinaldo Walcott, who teaches in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto, where he is the dir...
Felisa Vergara Reynolds on The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995)
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Felisa Vergara Reynold, an Associate Professor of French for the Department of French and Italian at the University of Ill...
Brian Valente-Quinn on Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Brian Valente-Quinn, he is an associate professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hi...
Bruce Janz on African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s conversation is with Bruce Janz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, where he also co-directs ...
Nick Bromell on The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is with Nick Bromell, Professor Emeritus in the English Department at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. Bromell is the a...
Sandra Gunning on Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Professor Sandra Gunning, Dr. Gunning is a literary scholar working jointly in the Department of American Culture, and the Dep...
Muriam Haleh Davis on Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr. Davis teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the author of Markets of Civiliza...
Catriona MacLeod on Invisible Presence: Drawing Women in French Comics
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Catriona MacLeod, a Senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. Her research in...
Andil Gosine on Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Gosine, a Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University in Toronto. His publications include co-authorshi...
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero on She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, she is a Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton...
Elodie Silberstein on Animality & Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Elodie Silberstein (she/her), an artist and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University (New York City, United State...
Adrienne J. Cohen on Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Adrienne Cohen, an Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Colorado State University. She has conducted extensive ethn...
Jennifer P. Nesbitt on Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Jennifer Nesbitt, professor of English at the York campus of The Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches eve...
Robin Brooks on Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Robin Brooks, an associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with an impressive record ...
Emily Marker on Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion is with Dr. Emily Marker, she is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research and teaching intere...
Lee McBride on Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Lee McBride, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio where he also serves as Chair of...
Ana Lucia Araujo on Museums and Atlantic Slavery
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, a Professor of History at Howard University in Washington DC. She is a social and cultural historian wri...
Lindsey B. Green-Simms on African Queer Cinemas
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Lindsey B. Green-Simms, a Professor of Literature at American University, Washington D.C. where she teaches classes on fil...
Kaiama L. Glover on A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Kaiama L. Glover, she is an Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Digital Huma...
Ashley M. Williard on Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Ashley M. Williard, an assistant professor in the Francophone Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, where h...
Richard Price on Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Richard Price, an anthropologist and historian who has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans thr...
Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She teaches...
Jay Rajiva on Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Jay Rajiva, who teaches in the Department of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published widely in ang...
Jacqueline Couti on Sex, Sea and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924-1948
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Jacqueline Couti, she is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice university. Her research and teaching ...
Michael L. Dickinson on Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Michael Lawrence Dickinson, an assistant professor of African American history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was...
Alex Madva, Vanessa Wills, Ian Olasov, and Dana Miranda on The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with four contributors to a new edited collection titled The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, published in lat...
Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White on Haiti's Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion is with Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White, editors of a new collection titled Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkab...
Sarah J. Zimmerman on Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion is with Dr. Sarah J. Zimmerman, an Associate Professor of history at Western Washington University and is the Vice President of the Fr...
Cajetan Iheka on African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor in the English Department at Yale University, where his research and teaching focus on African ...
Nick Nesbitt on The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is with Nick Nesbitt, who teaches in the Departments of French and Italian and Comparative Literature at Princeton University in Pri...
Mark Anthony Neal on Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Duke University in Durha...
Andrea Pitts on Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Andrea Pitts, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolin...
Julius Fleming, Jr. on Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Julius Fleming, Jr., who teaches in the Department of English at University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He has published ...
Diane Exavier on The Math of Saint Felix
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations in Atlantic Theory is a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Jour...
Adam Kotsko on What is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations in Atlantic Theory is a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Jour...
Deva Woodly on Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Deva Woodly, who teaches in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where she also direct...
Kyle Mays on An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Kyle Mays, who teaches in the Departments of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at University of Califor...
Martin Shuster on How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Martin Shuster, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland where he also directs the Cent...
Olúfẹmi O. TáÃwò on Reconsidering Reparations
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collabo...
Alvin Henry on Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Alvin Henry, who teaches in the Department of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he writes on African A...
Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, Nigel Gibson, and Lou Turner on Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with three scholars of Frantz Fanon’s work and legacy. Rose Ferreria da Silva, Professor at State University of Bahia in Brazil, who wr...
Mark Christian Thompson on Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Mark Christian Thompson, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Marylan...
Lindsey Stewart on The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Lindsey Stewart, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis where she writes and publishes on issues...
Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney on An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History at University of Memphis, and Charles McKinney, Professor of Africana Studies at Rhodes Colle...
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez on Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s discussion with Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez, who teaches in the Department of English at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. She pu...