ICM LECTURE SERIES
JODI BYRD
"Accumulated Catastrophes"
Monday, October 2, 2023, 4:45 p.m —6:15 p.m.
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
A zoom link is provided for the extenuating circumstances of those who cannot attend in person, but the quality of the image and sound cannot be guaranteed.
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/93688723581?pwd=N0YwQ0F2Z0pRdTJpNElMdk12VXBvZz09
Meeting ID: 936 8872 3581 Passcode: 1016
DESCRIPTION
My talk will be engaging in a conversation about how we understand catastrophe in the present from the multiple catastrophes that began with European arrival and the transatlantic slavery. I'll be discussing theories of racial capitalism in conversation with Black fungibility through Tiffany Lethabo King and Sylvia Wynter as well as historicizing catastrophe through Southeastern American Indian (specifically my own Chickasaw) histories with Hernando De Soto.
BIO
Jodi Byrd is Associate Professor in Cornell’s Department of Literatures in English, where their teaching and research focuses on Indigenous Studies, Indigenous and Queer Studies, and video game studies. Byrd’s acclaimed book, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (U of Minnesota P, 2011) examines how “Indianness” has been crucial to the formation of U.S. empire. Byrd recently co-edited the collection Colonial Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2022).
