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Conviviality, Coloniality, and the Making of the Other

Sun, April 16, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: Lobby Level, Rouge Room

Session Type: Symposium

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Conviviality tends to denote an ideal where individuals and groups from different political, racial, or cultural experiences come together to live in harmony, leaving conflict behind. But the recent police executions of Breonna Taylor, or George Floyd have only further underscored the urgent need for a vigorous conversation over the meaning of conviviality in the US context. These disturbing examples of Black deaths, often ahistorically rationalized within neoconservative and mainstream discourses as institutionally necessary for the maintenance of convivial and harmonious life, have provoked many questions regarding the proximity of conviviality and violence, brutality, and control in the US: What does it mean to live together? How have notions of conviviality been thought, imagined, and practiced in colonial/colonized spaces?

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