What does it mean to live collectively in the afterlife of a catastrophe?

How do we frame the traumatic crises of the 21st century— life post-9/11, pandemics, ethno-nationalist autocracies, imperial invasions, border brutalities and refugee crises—in a vocabulary that encapsulates responsibility, accountability, agentic expression, and above all, the shifting registers of selfhood?

Through a series of three lectures The Time of our Life interrogates the public culture of ‘trauma’ in the current climate of inflammatory polarisation. Join Homi Bhabha as he deconstructs and reconfigures new schema for understanding the politics of identity, culture wars, and the on-going “war of wounds and words” that haunts the moral and political economy of the US, alongside anti-minoritarian racial or ethnic equivalents around the world.