White Innocence Chair: Sabrina Marchetti, Ca’ Foscari

Keynote:

Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University Discussants:Annalisa Frisina, University of PaduaAngelica Pesarini, New York University Florence

Thursday 22nd of March 2018, 16.00-18.00CFZ – Cultural Flow ZoneFondamenta Zattere al Ponte Lungo 1392, Venezia

Dipartimento Di FilosoFia,sociologia, peDagogia e psicologia applicata

(Fisppa)Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

Gloria Wekker is Emerita Professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University and the author of several books, including The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora. In this keynote lecture she will discuss her latest book White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Duke UP, 2016).

“White Innocence is a major contribution that provides us with new and distinct methods for investigating the cultural archives of colonialism” (Sarah Ahmed).