Self-Portrait as Othello: An Evening with Jason Allen-Paisant

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About the Speakers

David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014), Stuart Hall’s Voice (2017), Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (forthcoming 2024), and (with Orlando Patterson) The Paradox of Freedom (2023). Scott is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project.

Jason Allen-Paisant  is a Jamaican-born poet and scholar who teaches Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. His first collection of poems, Thinking with Trees (2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and his second volume, Self-Portrait as Othello (2023) won the 2023 Forward Prize for Poetry and also the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. Jason is also the author Théâtre dialectique postcolonial: Aimé Césaire et Derek Walcott (2017), Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits (2024), and a forthcoming memoir, The Possibility of Tenderness (2024).

This event is co-organized by Small Axe, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.