Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, founding director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: a Critical Lexicon. She has worked on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire and ethnography of the archives. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), and Interior Frontiers: Essays on the entrails of inequality (2022).
Chair: Magali Bessone, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Magali Bessone is a professor of political philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on contemporary theories of justice, reparations, and critical theories of race and racism. Her recent publications include Faire justice de l'irréparable (2019), W.E.B. Du Bois: double conscience et condition raciale (2021) co-written with Matthieu Renault, and a Lexique des réparations de l'esclavage (2021) co-edited with Myriam Cottias.
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Ann Laura Stoler
New School for Social Research