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SUMMARY:\"Repossessing the Plantation: Land Memory Across Enslavements”
DESCRIPTION:\nIn the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk\, W. E. B. D
	u Bois meditates on the question\, “How does it feel to be a problem?” W
	hat makes the question obtrusive is its ontological quality: what is for
	egrounded as a problem is not a set of circumstances but being itself. I
	n this talk\, Zalloua considers how becoming Black or becoming Palestini
	an transforms you into a particular kind of object: a phobic object\, a 
	criminalizable object\, or even a genocidable object. These forms of obj
	ecthood mark the violent ways racialization and colonial domination stru
	cture white ontology\, the very grammar of being. Yet alongside these im
	posed forms\, I also imagine objecthood otherwise\, not only as a sign o
	f depletion or loss\, but as a site of cross-racial solidarity\, a milit
	ant call for ontological upheavals and psychic divestments\, and a refus
	al of the world’s partitions of being and nonbeing at home and across th
	e globe.\n\nZahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Li
	terature and Director of Indigeneity\, Race\, and Ethnicity Studies at W
	hitman College. He is also editor of The Comparatist. His teaching and s
	cholarship engage critical Black studies\, the posthuman\, and the Pales
	tinian question. His most recent works include To Exist as a Problem: Be
	ing Black\, Being Palestinian (2026)\; Fanon\, Žižek\, and the Violence 
	of Resistance (2025)\; The Politics of the Wretched: Race\, Reason\, and
	 Ressentiment (2024)\; Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity
	\, Blackness\, and the Promise of Universality (2023)\; Being Posthuman:
	 Ontologies of the Future (2021)\; Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist 
	Future (2020)\; Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism\, Literature\, and Phi
	losophy (2018)\; and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question
	: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017).\n\nFor more details: https://even
	ts.la.psu.edu/event/repossessing-the-plantation/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head></head><body><p>In the first pa
	ges of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the questi
	on, “How does it feel to be a problem?” What makes the question obtrusiv
	e is its ontological quality: what is foregrounded as a problem is not a
	 set of circumstances but being itself. In this talk, Zalloua considers 
	how becoming Black or becoming Palestinian transforms you into a particu
	lar kind of object: a phobic object, a criminalizable object, or even a 
	genocidable object. These forms of objecthood mark the violent ways raci
	alization and colonial domination structure white ontology, the very gra
	mmar of being. Yet alongside these imposed forms, I also imagine objecth
	ood otherwise, not only as a sign of depletion or loss, but as a site of
	 cross-racial solidarity, a militant call for ontological upheavals and 
	psychic divestments, and a refusal of the world’s partitions of being an
	d nonbeing at home and across the globe.</p><p>Zahi Zalloua is Cushing E
	ells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and Director of Indigeneity,
	 Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College. He is also editor of <e
	m>The Comparatist</em>. His teaching and scholarship engage critical Bla
	ck studies, the posthuman, and the Palestinian question. His most recent
	 works include <em>To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian
	</em> (2026); Fanon, Žižek, and the <em>Violence of Resistance</em> (202
	5); <em>The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment</em
	> (2024); <em>Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackne
	ss, and the Promise of Universality</em> (2023); <em>Being Posthuman: On
	tologies of the Future</em> (2021); <em>Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Ra
	cist Future</em> (2020); <em>Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literatu
	re, and Philosophy</em> (2018); and <em>Continental Philosophy and the P
	alestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek</em> (2017).</p><p>For
	 more details: <a href='https://events.la.psu.edu/event/repossessing-the
	-plantation/'>https://events.la.psu.edu/event/repossessing-the-plantatio
	n/</a></p></body></html>
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