Postcolonial Derrida Workshop

「後殖民德希達」工作坊

Date: March 2, 2026, 10:00-16:30

Room: LA2009, College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-Sen University

10 :00~12:00 Postcolonial Derrida Book Talk

Speaker: Sean Meighoo (Associate professor, Emory University)

Discussants: Mathias Obert 宋灝、Jean-Yves Heurtebise 何重誼 、Héctor G. Castaño 高長空

Sean Meighoo (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University) will present a reading from his book, Postcolonial Derrida, to be followed by a conversation on the complicated relationship between Derrida’s philosophical work and postcolonial theory. In Postcolonial Derrida, Sean Meighoo argues that Derrida’s philosophical work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such.  Critically reading some of Derrida’s most famous texts in addition to some of his lesser-known ones, Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with a diverse range of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia as well as African American and French feminist thinkers and writers including Toni Morrison, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Hélène Cixous, V.S. Naipaul, Nelson Mandela, M.K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

12:00~13:30 Lunch Break

13:30~14:20 “The Enlightements of Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction in the Maghreb”

Speaker: Rachid Boutayeb (Associate professor, Doha University)

14:35-15:25 “Thinking at the Limit: Re-thinking Derrida and Postcoloniality through Fang Yizhi’s Yi-Yu (易餘, the surplus of change)”

Speaker: Joyce C. H. Liu 劉紀蕙 (Researcher/Director, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心主任)

15:40-16:20 “’But why should we choose?’ Rethinking Difference with Derrida in Postcolonial Taiwan”

Speaker: Hung Shiau-ting 洪筱婷 (Assistant professor, Feng Chia University 逢甲大學助理教授）