Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the New Directions in Francophone Studies lecture series (https://events.uchicago.edu/live/files/87-updated-january-2024-flyer) welcomes Akrish Adhikari, PhD Candidate, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University.  The lecture is entitled, Ousmane Sembène and the Drums of Interpellation (https://events.uchicago.edu/live/files/82-new-directions-flyer-004):This talk focuses on a reading of Ousmane Sembène’s novel, God’s Bits of Wood [Les bouts de bois de Dieu] (1960), a fictionalized tale about labor strikes that took place in French West Africa in the late 1940s. In particular, I theorize the role of drumming as the media technology of anticolonial interpellation, that is, how drums are essential for calling out to workers and inaugurating their turn from colonial to anticolonial subjectivity.