{"670406":{"#nid":"670406","#data":{"type":"event","title":"What (is) Universalism? Planetary Poetics and an Ecology of the Cosmos: A Conversation between Maboula Soumahoro and Brigitte Stepanov","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvent local time: 3:45 \u2013 4:45 p.m. (Paris time)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for an (eco)critical discussion about universalism, planetary understandings of \u0022world,\u0022 and being and belonging in the \u0022era of the Anthropocene.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and Atlanta Global Studies Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the Speakers\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrigitte Stepanov\u003C\/strong\u003E is an assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgia Tech and a 2023-2024 Energy Equity, Environmental Justice, and Community Engagement Faculty Fellow. She writes and teaches about how categories of being, knowledge, and aesthetic forms are stretched and blurred by violence against land and life, and in turn, how ontologies and epistemologies are shaped by violent events. This thinking is inseparable from the weaponization of energy in conflict and the ecological consequences of war. In her current book project, \u003Cem\u003ECruelty, War, Fiction: Redefining the In-Human\u003C\/em\u003E, she dissects, through legal and literary frames, martial violence witnessed in Algeria, Rwanda, and France. Trained as a mathematician and a scholar of French and Francophone Studies, she finds herself at the intersection of several disciplines, each lending a lens through which to view our present and its shifting paradigms. She is the founder and director of the Energy Today Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub that reflects creatively and analytically on the energy \u2013 broadly defined from labor to thermodynamics \u2013 of our contemporary world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaboula Soumahoro \u003C\/strong\u003Eis an associate professor at the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France and was most recently the inaugural Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta (2021-2022). From 2013 to 2017, Soumahoro served as a member of the National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery. She is the author of \u003Cem\u003ELe Triangle et l\u2019Hexagone, r\u00e9flexions sur une identit\u00e9 noire\u003C\/em\u003E, translated in English by Kaiama L. Glover as \u003Cem\u003EBlack Is the Journey, Africana the Name\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand prefaced by Saidiya Hartman. This book was distinguished by the FetKann! Maryse Cond\u00e9 Literary Prize in 2020. In 2022-2023, Maboula Soumahoro will be an international visiting professor at the African-American and Africana Studies Department of Columbia University as well as a visiting faculty at Bennington College. In 2023-2024 she is a fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She translated from English \u003Cem\u003E\u00c0 perte de m\u00e8re \u2013 Sur les routes atlantiques de l\u2019esclavage\u003C\/em\u003E (original title: \u003Cem\u003ELose Your Mother. A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave\u003C\/em\u003E) released in September 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrench Biography: Maboula Soumahoro a obtenu un doctorat en civilisations du monde anglophone. Elle est aujourd\u2019hui sp\u00e9cialiste en \u00e9tudes \u00e9tatsuniennes, africaines-am\u00e9ricaines africaines et de la diaspora noire\/africaine. Ma\u00eetresse de conf\u00e9rences \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Tours (France), elle a \u00e9galement \u00e9tudi\u00e9 et enseign\u00e9 au sein de nombreux autres \u00e9tablissements scolaires et p\u00e9nitentiaires en France et aux \u00c9tats-Unis : Bennington College, Columbia University (New York et Paris) et Barnard College, Bard Prison Initiative, Stanford University (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris et Reims), les prisons de Bois-d\u2019Arcy, Villepinte (quartier des mineurs) et Fresnes. Ellea \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9sidente de la Villa Albertine \u00e0 Atlanta entre novembre 2021 et janvier 2022.De 2013 \u00e0 2016, Maboula Soumahoro a \u00e9t\u00e9 membre du Comit\u00e9 National pour l\u2019Histoire et la M\u00e9moire de l\u2019Esclavage (CNMHE). Depuis 2013, Maboula Soumahoro pr\u00e9side l\u2019association Black History Month (BHM), d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration de l\u2019histoire et des cultures du monde noir.Elle est notamment l\u2019autrice du Triangle et l\u2019Hexagone : r\u00e9flexions sur une identit\u00e9 noire (La D\u00e9couverte 2020) traduit en anglais sous le titre Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity,2021) et qui a re\u00e7u la mention sp\u00e9ciale du Prix Litt\u00e9raire FETKANN! Maryse Cond\u00e9 en 2020.En 2022-2023, Maboula Soumahoro est professeure internationale invit\u00e9e au d\u00e9partement des \u00e9tudes afro-am\u00e9ricaines et africaines de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Columbia ainsi que professeure invit\u00e9e au Bennington College. Son ann\u00e9e 2023-2024 se d\u00e9roulera \u00e0 l\u2019Institut des id\u00e9es et de l\u2019imagination de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Columbia.Elle traduit de l\u2019anglais \u00c0 perte de m\u00e8re \u2013 Sur les routes atlantiques de l\u2019esclavage (titre original : Lose Your Mother. A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave Route, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) sorti en septembre 2023 (Brook).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for an (eco)critical discussion about universalism, planetary understandings of \u0022world,\u0022 and being and belonging in the \u0022era of the Anthropocene.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us for an (eco)critical discussion about universalism, planetary understandings of \u0022world,\u0022 and being and belonging in the \u0022era of the Anthropocene.\u0022"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-10-13 14:35:42","changed_gmt":"2023-11-02 15:05:59","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-07T09:45:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-07T10:45:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-07T10:45:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-07 14:45:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-07 15:45:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-07 15:45:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"GT-Europe Library and Online via Zoom","extras":[],"hg_media":{"672247":{"id":"672247","type":"image","title":"Universalism","body":null,"created":"1698937277","gmt_created":"2023-11-02 15:01:17","changed":"1698937467","gmt_changed":"2023-11-02 15:04:27","alt":"Event flyer","file":{"fid":"255456","name":"What (is) Universalism Planetary_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/02\/What%20%28is%29%20Universalism%20Planetary_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/02\/What%20%28is%29%20Universalism%20Planetary_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":688766,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/02\/What%20%28is%29%20Universalism%20Planetary_0.png?itok=WLOAVRAN"}}},"media_ids":["672247"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_fzQ6PmXcRzWRtxCPwi9OPg","title":"Register Now"}],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrigitte Stepanov\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nbstepanov@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}