Lidia Curti: "From Black Humanism to the Violence of the Present"

The urgency of resistance to the progressive devastation of the planet leading to the analytical and epistemological horizons of intersectionality add new perspectives to feminist thought. Traditional ecological positions have been challenged by a feminist poetics of blackness emerging from science fiction and afrofeminist aesthetics. Meanwhile, black lives are still expendable in the Mediterranean while diasporic narratives arriving from its southern shores return colonialism to the present. This lecture was held as part of the 2019 Holberg Symposium: "From Double Consciousness to Planetary Humanism" in honour of Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy. BIOGRAPHY Lidia Curti is Honorary Professor of English Studies, University of Naples "L'Orientale". She is a cultural critic, feminist, and a co-founder and member of the research group “Feminist Futures”. Select publications: Female Stories, Female Bodies (1998), The Postcolonial Question (with Ian Chambers, 1995), La voce dell’altra (2006).