This event will be held in English.
Organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Center Paris.
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Speakers
David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014), Stuart Hall’s Voice (2017), Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (forthcoming 2024), and (with Orlando Patterson) The Paradox of Freedom (2023). Scott is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican-born poet and scholar who teaches Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. His first collection of poems, Thinking with Trees (2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and his second volume, Self-Portrait as Othello (2023) won the 2023 Forward Prize for Poetry and also the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. Jason is also the author Théâtre dialectique postcolonial: Aimé Césaire et Derek Walcott (2017), Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits (2024), and a forthcoming memoir, The Possibility of Tenderness (2024).
Venue
Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: Columbia Global Center Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.
The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Columbia Global Center Paris or its affiliates.
