Postcolonial Spatialities with Michael Sawyer

The SHC Research Workshop Postcolonial Spatialities gathers three times per quarter with guest speakers to explore the spatial implications of (neo)colonialism and imperialism.

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Join Dr. Michael Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture and Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sawyer’s work focuses on the revolutionary potentiality of Black people and takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring the works that authorize, accompany, sustain, and depict Black Being. He has published two monographs, entitled An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis (2018) and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X (2020), and is at work on multiple new book projects as well as musical ones, including a recently debuted sonic-assemblage (composed with Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Payton) titled Reclaiming: Eight Minutes and Forty-Six Seconds of Ju Ju.