If we want to decolonise the university, we first need to decolonise our imaginations. Many Black and Indigenous artists are wrestling with the legacies of colonialism, enslavement and environmental destruction. How do we reconstruct histories that have been lost or erased? And what futures can we imagine in a time of imminent catastrophe?
Hazel Carby delivered her lecture as part of the LRB's Winter Lecture series at St James's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 13 March 2024.
Read the lecture here: lrb.me/carbywlyt
Listen to Hazel Carby discuss her lecture on the podcast here: lrb.me/carbypod
Hazel Carby is professor emeritus of African American studies at Yale University. Her most recent book, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands was awarded the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2020.
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