Description: We consider our scholarly textual transactions in globality. We ask how the humanities can reconfigure the current version of global thought, which usually assembles various area specializations with no deep background shared among the participants. Panelists and audience members situate the work of a renowned filmmaker from the Global South.

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Presider

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U

Speakers

Hortense Jeanette Spillers, Vanderbilt U

Juan Obarrio, Johns Hopkins U, MD

Luis Tapia Mealla, U Mayor de San Andrés

Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur U

Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, U of Houston

Else Vieira, Queen Mary U of London