Radically Humanist Learning

On this week's episode of the Black Studies Podcast, we are thrilled to be joined by Deborah Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke to discuss the case for letting Anthropology burn, what a radically humanist Anthropology might look like, and much more!

Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the afterlives of imperialism, in the forms of community, subjectivity and expectation that are produced by violence. She is an award-winning author of books such as Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Exceptional Violence, and Modern Blackness. She is also a co-editor of the volume Globalization and Race (2006), co-director and co-producer of the documentary films Bad Friday, and Four Days in May, and she is the co-curator of a multi-media installation titled Bearing Witness, which opened at the Penn Museum in November 2017. From 2016-2020, she was the Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. Prior to her life as an academic, she was a professional dancer with the New York-based Urban Bush Women.

Kamari Maxine Clarke is a Distinguished Professor in Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto and an award-winning author who has published nine books and over 50 peer-refereed journal articles and book chapters . For more than twenty years, Professor Clarke has conducted research on issues related to legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She has spent her career exploring theoretical questions concerning culture and power and detailing the relationship between new social formations and contemporary problems, and In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Prize for career excellence. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a technical advisor to the African Union legal counsel.

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