Homi Bhabha Delivers Keynote Lecture at the Vatican

On March 30th, Professor Bhabha delivered a keynote lecture at the Vatican, as a part of the Papal Summit of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on “Colonization, Decolonization and Neocolonialism from the Perspective of Justice and the Common Good.”

The Holy Father Pope Francis invited judges, public servants, and leading scholars to attend the Papal Summit to address justice and the common good in the African and American contexts. He invited reflections on contemporary tragedies of hunger and famine, war and terror, catastrophic migrations, displacement, deepening global inequalities, and marginalization through the lenses of colonialization, decolonialization, and neocolonialism “so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”