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POSTPONED: Felwine Sarr in Conversation

Conference

Georgia Tech & Carlos Museum at Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

September 26-27, 2024

Due to inclement weather related to Hurricane Helene, these events have been postponed. We will update you with more information at a later date.

Senegalese philosopher, economist, and musician Felwine Sarr is invited by Villa Albertine to participate in an outstanding conversation series at Georgia Tech, highlighting his literary and musical practice, and at the Carlos Museum at Emory University, delving into his intellectual and political journey.

Georgia Tech

Spaces of the Soul: Felwine Sarr on Literature, Music, and Dreams in Conversation with Stéphanie Boulard

Thursday, September 26 | 4:30-6:30pm
Scholars Event Theater (Room 1280), Price Gilbert Memorial Library at Georgia Tech, 704 Cherry St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

In this conference, we will learn more about Felwine Sarr’s creative practices, examining how artistic forms —such as musical composition, poetry, and narrative fiction— shape and express our emotional and intellectual landscapes. He will be in conversation with Stéphanie Boulard, Professor of French Literature and Visual Arts at Georgia Tech.

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This event is presented by the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, and France-Atlanta, with the support of the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC) and the Office of the Vice Provost of International Initiatives.

The Carlos Museum at Emory University

Decolonizing Knowledge, a Conversation with Felwine Sarr

Friday, September 27 | 4-5:30pm
The Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 South Kilgo Cir NE, Atlanta, GA 30322

One of the great intellectuals of our time, committed to the decolonization of knowledge from an African perspective, Senegalese thinker Felwine Sarr is invited for the first time in Atlanta to present his work and his intellectual journey. Felwine Sarr will be in conversation with Lauren Tate Baeza, Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art and Axelle Karera, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University.

In 2021, Time magazine featured Felwine Sarr as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His thinking is developing in different directions and on several fronts at once. With philosopher Achille Mbembe, he is the initiator of the “Ateliers de la pensée”, which has been bringing together writers, thinkers, artists and academics from Africa and the diaspora in Dakar since 2016. The same year, he published Afrotopia [University of Minnesota Press, 2020], an essay on the future of the continent and the need to pursue decolonization. Together with art historian Bénédicte Savoy, he is also the author of the landmark “Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain” [The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics, 2018], logical compensation for colonial predation. Felwine Sarr now teaches at Duke University, where he brings knowledge produced in Africa and promotes an ecology of knowledge from different geographies and traditions. More recently, he has played a major role, alongside numerous intellectuals, activists and citizens, in the defense of Senegalese democracy, and advocates a deepening of democracy in Africa. Today, he is working to create a “pluriversity” in Dakar, a university based on the plurality of knowledge.

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This event is presented by the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, and France-Atlanta.  

Felwine Sarr


Senegalese author, philosopher, economist, musician, and Professor at Duke University

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Stéphanie Boulard


Professor of French Literature and Visual Arts at Georgia Tech

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Lauren Tate Baeza


Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art

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Axelle Karera


Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University

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