Roderick A. Ferguson presents "The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference". This is the second lecture in the Black Studies and American Studies at the Crossroads series and will be held on Monday, October 22nd, 2012 at 3:30pm in room 105 Scott Hall. Please continue reading for an event flier and talk description.
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Roderick Ferguson
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Monday, Oct 22nd, 2012
3:30pm - 5pm, room 105 Scott Hall
Description:
In this talk, Roderick A. Ferguson discusses his new book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. The talk will explore the origins of the book and its argument that state, capital, and academy found ways to learn from the social movements of the fifties and sixties, ways that would evolve a mode of power that came in the wake of liberation, a mode that would try to put forms of minority difference in the service of hegemony.
Bio:
Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) and the co-editor with Grace Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011). His new book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press in October of 2012.
