Event
International Conference on Everyday Lives of Instability in the Global South
3401 Walnut St
The international conference organized by the Center for Africana Studies in collaboration with the Provost’s Office, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology and the Marginalized Populations Program on ‘Everyday Lives of Instability in the Global South’ will focus on the tactics, strategies, and coping mechanisms that people and communities have developed in the face of the contemporary crisis of (social, economic, and political) instability—manifesting as uncertainty, precarity, insecurity, and/or vulnerability.
Professor AbdouMaliq Simone will present the keynote address "Urban Ecologies of Global Black Life"
Featured Speaker
AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow Emeritus at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, Polytechnic University of Turin, and Fellow, Humanity's Urban Future, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Simone works on issues of spatial composition in extended urban regions, the production of everyday life for urban majorities in the Global South, infrastructural imaginaries, collective affect, global blackness, and histories of the present for Muslim working classes.