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X-WR-CALNAME:Deborah A. Thomas—From Island to Island to Island: The Intim
 acies and Abandonments of Empire
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DESCRIPTION:Please join the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities “Sit
 es of Inquiry” research group for a guest lecture by Professor Deborah A
 . Thomas (University of Pennsylvania). Organized in partnership with the V
 an Hunnick History Department\, the Department of American Studies and Eth
 nicity\, the Department of Anthropology\, and The Ethnography Studio. \n\n
  \n\nFROM ISLAND TO ISLAND TO ISLAND:  THE INTIMACIES AND ABANDONMENTS OF 
 EMPIRE\n\nThis talk – a multi-media prose poem – will think through so
 me of the important\, though lesser-known\, middle passage histories that 
 inform diasporic movement\, cycles of dispossession and abandonment\, and 
 potential repair.  It will touch on issues related to African burial groun
 ds\, the ethical treatment of human remains worldwide\, and the cultural p
 henomenon of kumina\, a Congolese-based ritual practice that was establish
 ed in Jamaica by Africans who had been liberated in St. Helena\, an island
  in the South Atlantic that was central to the circuits that brought toget
 her Europe\, West Africa\, South Africa\, and the Caribbean and that re-or
 iented the center of the universe to Europe from the Mediterranean and ove
 rland silk route trades.  How do we think through the legacies of these lo
 ng histories and these forgotten circuits?  In what ways might we conceptu
 alize repair?\n\n\nDeborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of 
 Anthropology\, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography
  at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Exorbitance:  A S
 peculative Ethnography of Inheritance\, Political Life in the Wake of the 
 Plantation\, Exceptional Violence\, and Modern Blackness\, and co-director
  of the documentary films Bad Friday and Four Days in May. She is the reci
 pient of several awards\, including a Guggenheim fellowship\, and she is a
 n elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to he
 r life in the academy\, she was a professional dancer with the New York-ba
 sed Urban Bush Women.  \n\n \n\n \n\nPlease direct any questions to societ
 yoffellows@dornsife.usc.edu.\n\n \n\nIndividuals with disabilities who nee
 d accommodations to attend this event may contact Zachary Mann\, zmann@usc
 .edu. It is requested that individuals requiring accommodations or auxilia
 ry aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format material
 s notify us at least 7 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort wi
 ll be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely
  manner.\n\n \n\nThis program is open to all eligible individuals. The USC
  Society of Fellows in the Humanities operates all of its programs and act
 ivities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. E
 ligibility is not determined based on race\, sex\, ethnicity\, sexual orie
 ntation\, or any other prohibited factor.
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LOCATION:Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC)\, 227
SUMMARY:Deborah A. Thomas—From Island to Island to Island: The Intimacies
  and Abandonments of Empire
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 -pennsylvania-from-island-to-island-to-island-the-intimacies-and-abandonme
 nts-of-empire
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