– The Sylvia Wynter study group
| Kursen ges på engelska Course Syllabus Reconstruction Continuation Course | |
“Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities […] And the maps of spring always have to be redrawn again, in undared forms.”
— Sylvia Wynter (1995)
The continuation course Reconstructions: the Sylvia Wynter study group focuses on the advanced study of black feminist fugitivity and the forms and spatialities that are informed by the sociality, culture and creative practice emerging from within the African diaspora. The aim of this advanced course is to develop a deeper discussion, reflection and collective learning on advanced readings, with the purpose for participants to deepen and develop research questions and experiments that have been formulated in the previous year’s course of Reconstructions.
Course content
Essays by Jamaican thinker Sylvia Wynter: Towards the Sociogenic Principle and No Humans Involved—form the foundation for the study group, and will be read and discussed alongside Black feminist thinkers inspired by her work such as Denise Ferreira da Silva, Kathrine McKittrick, Saidiya Hartman, Hortense Spiller amongst others. The group will also select a novel by science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler to their readings list to read in relation to the other texts.
Course structure
The course is one-year and full-time, and conducted through compulsory monthly scheduled periods and contains the following elements: monthly readings, collective reading-sessions, group discussions, participant-led sessions, collective feedback session on ongoing work/research processes.
Application
Send a letter of motivation which clearly articulate reasons of interest for the course and indicates how the applicant intends to develop a project from the previous year´s course to registrator@kkh.se. The e-mail should be marked: Reconstructions, Continuation Course
Deadline April, 10 th
If liable to pay study fees, add a letter applying for the scholarship. Marked: Scholarship Application to Reconstructions Continuation Course.