The Age of Independence and Settler-Colonialism

Join Joseph Massad , AUC's distinguished visiting professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, as he examines the colonial origins of independence, self-determination and national liberation — notions often presented as anti-colonial, yet invented by European colonial settlers. The lecture traces the genealogy of these concepts, the centrality of settler-colonialism to their emergence, and how they came to be adopted by indigenous struggles against colonialism and settler-colonialism.