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Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, HS-101
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Centre for African Studies
Nancy Rose Hunt: "Traces or Cases?"
What is the difference between traces or cases in historical writing? What is the value of each or of working with other such heuristic terms (strands, slices, episodes, the sutured)? How may each be used, developed, or combined when writing about Africa? With a touch of a retrospective into my earlier work -- the reproductive, the sadistic, and the acoustic -- I will share parts of a current attempt to investigate the psychiatric and the turbulent in relation to Congolese colonial spaces and aberrant figures.
Nancy Rose Hunt is author of two prize-winning monographs, A Colonial Lexicon (Duke 1999; Herskovits) and A Nervous State (Duke 2016: Klein Prize), numerous essays and articles, and the co-edited Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness (Duke 2024). Suturing New Medical Histories of Africa (Lit Vertag 2013) began as her Carl Schlettwein Lecture in Basel. A co-edited volume (with Pedro Monaville) devoted to the Kinshasa-based comic artist, Papa Mfumu’eto 1er, will appear (Leuven) in 2025. After 19 years at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), she moved to a professorship at the University of Florida. About the same time, with Achille Mbembe, she began Duke’s ongoing Theory in Forms book series.
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