Salar Mameni: “Angel of Critique”

Wednesday, April 22 at 4pm in Lawrence Hall, Room 166

Join Salar Mameni for a reflection on war, genocide, and the limits of critique. 

Salar Mameni is an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and affiliated faculty in the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia. Mameni is the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke, 2023), which considers the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new geological era in relation to the concurrent declaration of the War on Terror in the early 2000s.