New Faculty Seminar: Elisabeth Paquette
HI Seminar Room (218 Clemens Hall)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Is Sylvia Wynter a Marxist?
Afro-Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter's political and aesthetic project continues to have relevance for a variety of thinkers today. In this presentation, Paquette seeks to make evident the role a Marxian framework serves for Wynter, and more importantly unpack the various iterations that class and labour serve not only her accounting of race, gender, and sexuality, but also for connections to land, black nationalism, and universal struggles for liberation.
[Complimentary coffee and cookies are provided at these brown bag lunch sessions.]
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Elisabeth Paquette
PhD
Education
- PhD, York University (2017)
- MA, University of Guelph (2010)
- BA, Honors, Trent University (2006)
- International Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2005)
About
Elisabeth Paquette has studied in Canada and Belgium, and taught in Canada and the US. Her first book, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Currently, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter, as well as an edited collection on Alain Badiou’s conception of sexual difference. She has translated several essays, including a few by Julia Kristeva. She is also the founder and co-organizer of the annual Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop.Research Areas
Continental Philosophy (esp. French Marxism), Feminist Theory, Decolonial Theory, Social and Political Philosophy
