Special Event: Guest Lecture Series with Dr. F. Nick Nesbitt

Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations 

Virtual Event RSVP: go.umd.edu/AFAM_Lecture-NickNesbitt_RegApr2022

Description: 

On Wednesday, April 20th at 12:00pm, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center from the College of Arts and Humanities, The Center for Literary and Comparative Studies from the Department of English, and Department of African American Studies are excited to welcome Dr. Nick Nesbitt, Professor for the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University, to speak for his special segment titled “The Price of Slavery”: A Critical Conversation with Nick Nesbitt”. 

Dr. Nesbitt will discuss his recently published book, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean, which analyzes capitalist slavery using Marx’s Capital and its affiliation with the Caribbean revolution against colonialism.

This Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations event will be online via Zoom.

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About The Speaker:

Nick Nesbitt received his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) with a Minor in Brazilian Portuguese from Harvard University. He has previously taught at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and at Miami University (Ohio), and in 2003-4 he was a Mellon Fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. He is the author of Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant (Liverpool 2013); Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (Virginia 2008); and Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (Virginia 2003). He is also the editor of The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today (Duke 2017), Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution (Verso, 2008); co-editor of Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring (Suture 2020); and co-editor (with Brian Hulse) of Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Music (Ashgate 2010). For 2019-21, he is the recipient of a GAČR grant as Senior Researcher at the Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His next book is entitled, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean.

For more information about Nick Nesbitt: https://fit.princeton.edu/people/f-nick-nesbitt 

For further details about The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5724?fbclid=IwAR2Cmj80XC31T-Ie9f9ruPy-e4zYforiPeP7zEl9DEg-khnb3CyUVLekVp4 

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