The Black Atlantic @ 20

Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), scholarship no longer simply posits the relationship between blackness and modernity as an irreconcilable problem. Though Gilroy posited The Black Atlantic as a 'heuristic' work, his ideas engendered debates in history, anthropology, and literary studies as well as political thought and philosophy-areas once perceived as the exclusive domain of an organic and hermetically sealed Western tradition. The Black Atlantic @ Twenty symposium (BA@20) aims to explore how Gilroy's insistence that blackness figures as a constitutive element of modernity has effected a lasting transformation in knowledge production.

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More than 8 minutes of introduction and then the most boring lecturers... Shame.