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White Innocence Chair: Sabrina Marchetti, Ca’ Foscari Keynote: Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University Discussants: Annalisa Frisina, University of Padua Angelica Pesarini, New York University Florence Thursday 22nd of March 2018, 16.00-18.00 CFZ – Cultural Flow Zone Fondamenta 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).
