Debt, Solidarity, Exchange with Dr. Salar Mameni

Part of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice’s Noted Scholar Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory

In this talk Salar Mameni (Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics) considers the entangled notions of debt, solidarity, and exchange within contemporary global solidarity movements and in relation to Islamic thought. Tracing the notion of solidarity to its economic and transactional history within Roman law, Mameni considers the ethics of solidarity in relation to sanctions, boycotts, and other forms of civil contracts and civil disobedience. This talk pays particular attention to the unassimilable dimension of faith, religion, and spiritual practice in enacting resistance by examining how debt and exchange circulate within Islamic thought.

Oct 30, 2024, 12pm – 1pm (light lunch to follow)

BUTO 225

In person only, RSVP required.