DATE: Tuesday, 22 August 2023
TIME: 2:00pm – 4:00pm,
VENUE: CHR seminar room, Belville Campus

Prof Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is Malcolm S. Forbes Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where he teaches critical theory, Black literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005), Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (2023).

Currently, Weheliye is working on SchwarzSein: Black Life beyond the Human, which situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. This Humanities in Session seminar is based on this latest project, and coincides with his participation in the annual SASRIM conference which will take place at the Greatmore Humanities Hub.