Jamaican professor guest lectures in Italy
University of the West Indies (UWI)-trained professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Anthony Bogues is expected to wrap up a week of lectures on Caribbean intellectual tradition at the University of Bologna in Italy today.
Bogues is director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University in the US.
His series of lectures, which he began on Tuesday, June 28, reviewed the works of famous anti-colonial thinker and political figure, Frantz Fanon; playwright, poet and political personality, Aime Cesaire; and those of Jamaican theorist, Sylvia Wynter.
Bogues’ lectures are part of a special partnership between Brown and the University of Bologna — the oldest university in the western world — on global studies and critical theory.
Brown announced that the professor and other faculty members of the university, along with scholars from China, Africa and Latin America, were expected to launch a global initiative called, ‘Reframing the History of Political Thought’.
“This project will seek to explore political concepts from ordinary people and neglected traditions of critical thought, while redefining political concepts outside of Eurocentric foundations,” Brown said.
Anthony Bogues holds a PhD in Political Theory from UWI, Mona (1994). The Brown University website lists him as a writer, scholar, curator, the Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007), and Asa Messer Professsor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He is an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture and Media, and History of Art and Architecture; an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; an associate director of the Center for Caribbean Thought, UWI, Mona; and an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies, the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Bogues’ major research and writing interests are intellectual, literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory, critical theory, Caribbean and African politics, as well as Haitian, Caribbean, and African art.
