Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episodes
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. Táíwò 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...
Irvin Hunt on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Irvin Hunt, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. He writes on...
Kris Sealey on Creolizing the Nation
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Kris Sealey about her 2020 book Creolizing the Nation, which addresses the cultural, political, and historical significance of cre...
Jeanne-Marie Jackson on The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A lengthy conversation with Jeanne-Marie Jackson about her new book and its creative staging of dialogue between fiction and philosophy, with particul...
Geo Maher on Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Geo Maher about his forthcoming book Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance, which explores the histo...
Zeyad el Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Grant Farred on Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Zeyad el Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Grant Farred about the forthcoming collection Africana Studies: Theoretical Future...
Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable, the new collection of speeches, pamphlets, essays, and manifestos by the Gr...