The University of Warwick’s Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies presents David Scott (Ruth and William Lubic Professor at Columbia University) who will deliver the 2025 Walter Rodney Lecture. This lecture, entitled “On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa between Revolution and Reparation,” will take place on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, at 5:15pm (GMT), at Science Block B, B2.04/05 (opposite the Main Library) University of Warwick.
David Scott is the author of many publications including Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004), Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017). Scott is also the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project.
For more information, see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/eventsnew/?calendarItem=8ac672c5985422630198746b2f0b04cf
Also see https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/david-scottand https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/fellows/david-scott/
[Photo credit: Ferrante Ferranti, 2023.]
The University of Warwick’s Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies presents David Scott (Ruth and William Lubic Professor at Columbia University) who will deliver the 2025 Walter Rodney Lecture. This lecture, entitled “On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa between Revolution and Reparation,” will take place on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, at 5:15pm (GMT),
