Women and Gender Resource Center

“The Black Study of an Old Matter: The Poetic Socialities of Africanité and Arabité”

Thursday, February 9, 2023

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Arab-American Educational Foundation Dr. Burhan and Mrs. Misako Ajouz Professor of Arab Studies warmly invites you to “The Black Study of an Old Matter: The Poetic Socialities of Africanité and Arabité” Presented by Professor R.A. Judy (University of Pittsburgh) Co-sponsored by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies, Department of English, and the Department of African American Studies The lecture will be held at the University of Houston’s Student Center North Building in the Senate Chamber Room (204), with a reception at 5:00 pm followed by the lecture at 5:30 pm. In his lecture, “The Black Study of an Old Matter: The Poetic Socialities of Africanité and Arabité,” Professor R.A. Judy considers the way in which the confluence of conceptual performative poetic practices of living with nothingness challenge the political foundations of the neoliberal world order. Two illustrations of this are “sṭambālī” and “diwān.” R.A. Judy is a Professor of Literature at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches courses related to the fields of Comparative literature, Black Critique, World Literature with particular emphasis on Arabic, and African Literature, as well as Semiotics and Literary Theory. He is author of (Dis)forming the American Canon: The Vernacular of African Arabic American Slave Narrative (1992), and Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black (2020). He has published numerous essays in the areas of philosophy, contemporary Islamic philosophy, literary/cultural theory, music, and Arabic and American literatures. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact: cas@central.uh.edu