The “State of Disappearance” series asks urgent questions about extreme violence, the ‎normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, ‎along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
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In this event, Brad Evans and Chantal Meza will be joined by renowned critical race theorist ‎David Theo Goldberg. Addressing the relationship between disappearance and racialised ‎bodies, the conversation will attend to the history of racial persecution, the vanishing of bodies ‎from sites of meaning, memory and justice, along with the ways the violence of disappearance ‎is marking the present. As disappearance sets apart those who should be looked upon with ‎dignity from those whom society deems to be disposable, the question of absence is rethought.
This conversation is part of the ongoing State of Disappearance project: ‎www.historiesofviolence.com/s...
David Theo Goldberg is the former director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute ‎and a distinguished professor of comparative literature, anthropology, and criminology, law ‎and society at UC Irvine. Goldberg’s work ranges over issues of social, political and critical ‎theory, race and racism, the future of the university and digital technology. He has written ‎extensively on race and racism. His books include Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015), Dread: ‎Facing Futureless Futures (2021), and The War on Critical Race Theory (2023). ‎
Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer whose work focuses on the ‎problem of violence. He is the author of twenty books and edited volumes, along with over a ‎hundred and fifty academic and international media articles. He is the founding director of the ‎Centre for the Study of Violence and holds a Chair in Political Violence & Aesthetics at the ‎University of Bath.
Website: www.brad-evans.co.uk
Chantal Meza is a self-taught abstract painter living and working in the United Kingdom. Her ‎works have been exhibited in more than 30 group and individual exhibitions in prominent ‎museums and galleries in Mexico, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom.
Website: www.chantal-meza.com ‎