Critical Perspectives
MagMa-Class
MagMa-Class with Denise Ferreira da Silva
One of the most important thinkers of today, Denise Ferreira da Silva presents a magMa-class at the 10th MITsp. A Brazilian philosopher and artist living in the United States for nearly 30 years, she is a professor at New York University and explores intersections between race, power, and ethics from a Black feminist anti-colonial perspective.
WHEN AND WHERE
March 21, Thursday, from 18h to 20h
Free admission
ABOUT
Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher and artist. She holds the Samuel Rudin Professor Chair in Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her books include Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minnesota, 2007), Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins, 2013), and Unpayable Debt (Sternberg, 2022). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 8, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, La Trobe University, among others. Her artistic work has been exhibited in international venues, including Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, MoMA, Guggenheim, MACBA, Munch Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and the São Paulo, Berlin, and Venice Biennales.
