Temporalities of Refusal is collaboratively organized by members of Newcastle University’s School X and the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, and supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
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Lead Organizers
David Ventura (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy, Newcastle University)
David is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at Newcastle, currently working on a 3 year post-doctoral project titled ‘Thinking the Racialisation of Time with Édouard Glissant.’ Drawing on Glissant’s theoretical and literary corpus, and other thinkers who explicitly think time in relation to the history of transatlantic slavery, David’s current research seeks to diagnose and challenge the main temporal configurations that effectuate and sustain systems of racism in today’s world.
German Primera Villamizar (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Brighton)
German Primera is a senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Brighton. He serves as the deputy director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE) and is an editor for the Journal of Contemporary Political Theory (CPT) and the Journal of Italian Philosophy. His teaching and research interests encompass French and Italian contemporary philosophy and thought, Black studies, and Biopolitics. German is currently collaborating with Prof. Mark Devenney on a book entitled Troubling Democracy: On Practices of Care, Fugitivity, and Refusal, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to issue a special note of thanks to the following individuals and groups, who all variously assisted with the planning and running of the symposium: Prof. Tina Chanter (Newcastle University), Luke Edmeads (University of Brighton), Dr. Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), Lo Moran (Artist), Bernardo Carvalho de Mello (Newcastle University), the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group, Prof. Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Prof. Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle University), Holden M. Rasmussen (Newcastle University), and Am Ubhi (DJ, writer and researcher).
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Sponsors
The event is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust as part of project ECF-2022-415.
