On April 5, 2019, theSymposium on Development and Underdevelopment in the Global South: Forms, Histories, Alternatives took place.

10:00-11:00 Duncan Yoon, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School, New York University: “Africa, China, and the Global South Novel: In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo, Inc.”Respondent: Robert Wyrod, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies

11:00-12:00 Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American and American Studies, University of New Mexico: "The Anti-Development Alternative: Resource Extraction and Resistance in the Navajo Nation”Respondent: Clint Carroll, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies

2:00-3:00 Brian Larkin, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College: “The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructures”Respondent: Janice Ho, Associate Professor of English

3:00-4:00 María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University: “What is the Decolonial? Who Speaks for the Dispossessed? Roma and the Settler Colonial Paradigm.”Respondent: John-Michael Rivera, Associate Professor of English

4:00-5:00 Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: "Running out of (Narrative) Options: Conquering the Right to Development”Respondent: Nan Goodman, Professor of English