The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series presents

Debt, Solidarity, Exchange

Dr. Salar Mameni

WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, October 30th, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225 (in-person only)

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A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm.

This talk is kindly co-sponsored by The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory

ABSTRACT

In this talk Salar Mameni 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.

ABOUT Dr. Salar Mameni

Salar Mameni is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2023). He is an art historian specializing in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with an interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia.

He has published in Catalyst, Qui Parle, Ramus, Resilience, Signs, Women & Performance, Al-Raida Journal, Fuse Magazine, Fillip Review and Canadian Art Journal, and has written for exhibition catalogues in Dubai, Sharjah and Istanbul.