This initiative seeks to bring together a community of thinkers, readers, and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works to advance conversations between critical and postcolonial and de-colonial theories. The initiative is a cooperation between the University of Michigan, and the American University in Cairo. We will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 5 from Enzo Traverso’s 2016 book Left-Wing Melancholia.

In both sessions we will be joined by visiting scholars Surti Singh (American University in Cairo) and Sami Khatib (Leuphana University of Lüneburg).