Surrealism: A Scattershot of Anticolonial Thought

Thursday, September 25th 2025 

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Hybrid Event (see details in flyer below)

Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote “something almost happened” in the interwar years before war and fascism shattered everything. This talk reconstructs what almost happened by examining the byways that psychoanalysis opened up for anticolonialism in the 1930s-40s, from Surrealist poetry and painting to Négritude and structural anthropology. These experiments pointed to a “new humanism” anchored in the global periphery that was overshadowed by decolonization’s subsequent failures.

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