Celebrating the work of Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Celebrating the work of Souleymane Bachir Diagne

With contributions by:

Salim Abdelmadjid, Mouhamadou El Hady BA, Alioune Bah, Etienne Balibar, Akeel Bilgrami, Ali Benmakhlouf, Françoise Blum, Charles Bowao, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Hamid Dabashi, Daniel Dauvois, Vishaka Desai, Penelope Lisa Deutscher, Mamadou Diouf, Thomas Dodman, Pierre Force, Lewis R. Gordon, Philippe Gouët, Chike Jeffers, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Anais Maurer, Ramatoulaye Diagne Mbengue, Bado Ndoye, Nasrin Qader, Emmanuelle Saada, Felwine Sarr, Achille Varzi, Gary Wilder, Frédéric Worms, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

[The full conference agenda will be provided here soon.]

These two days will be preceded by a Keynote Lecture by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, In Praise of the Universal, on Thursday, April 3, 6:30-8:00 PM. Register here.
This conference is organized by the Columbia University Maison Française and Department of French, with additional support provided by Columbia’s Institute of African Studies, Office of the Dean of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Committee on Global Thought, SOF/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Alliance Program, Arts and Sciences, and MESAAS, and by Villa Albertine, Cultural Services of the Embassy of France.

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