Conversation on Resolutely Black

With Françoise Vergès (Independent Scholar, Paris), Matthew Smith (Northern Illinois University), and Donna Jones (UC Berkeley), moderated by Karl Britto (UC Berkeley).

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Conversation on The Black Register

With Tendayi Sithole (University of South Africa), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg), and Thabang Monoa (University of Johannesburg), moderated by David Theo Goldberg (UC Irvine).

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Critical Times Volume 3, Issue 1

Critical Times is an open-access, online journal that seeks to foreground encounters between canonical critical theory and various traditions of critique emerging from other historical legacies, seeking to highlight the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.
Volume 3, Issue 1 is now available through Duke University Press. Click here to read. 
On Anti-Blackness in the United States

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery—all were murdered by the police for being Black. Through their singular names, we also recall the names of all others who have been killed, or whose lives have been wrecked, by racist institutions. We stand in solidarity with Black communities, now and always, against all forms of racism and injustice. [Read more]
Joyce Kozloff, Cities on the Amazon, 1995
In the Midst | Blog

Critical Times launches a new blog at ctjournal.org. In the Midst conveys the difficulties of writing during critical times, and registers the importance of writing from within concrete, unfolding situations, of staying with the troubles of the moment, of thinking from particular grounds, and of allowing for responsive, experimental, and tentative interventions.
Joyce Kozloff, Targets, 2000
New to the Consortium

The newest programs, centers, and projects that have joined the Consortium come from Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific Rim, North America, and Europe. We invite you to explore the Consortium directory.
Critical South Book Series

Critical South, a book series of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs published by Polity Press, galvanizes cross-hemispheric discussion with new and established works of critical theory from the Global South.
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International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP), jointly housed at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University, is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The task of this international consortium is to document, connect, and support the various programs and projects that now represent critical theory across the globe. Through its work, the Consortium aims to document the global contours of critical theory today, supporting critical thought both inside and outside the university in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology studies, and seeking collaborative forms for critically responding to pressing global challenges.
Directory

The Consortium directory connects programs, centers, and projects in the field of critical theory throughout the world, faciliating intellectual exchange, and illuminating the global form and reach of critical theory today.
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Critical Times

Critical Times is a peer-reviewed, open access online journal published by the ICCTP with the aim of foregrounding contemporary critical theory operating within a global frame. The journal publishes essays, interviews, dialogues, dispatches, visual art, and various other platforms for critical reflection, transnational solidarity, and political practice.
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Critical South

Critical South, a book series of the ICCTP published by Polity Press, aims to galvanize cross-hemispheric discussion, translating and publishing both new and established works of critical theory from the Global South.
Conferences

The ICCTP’s biannual conference cycle focuses on contemporary global issues of concern for new forms of critical theory, bringing together affiliates in various parts of the world for academic exchange.
UC Irvine Critical Theory Archive

The University of California, Irvine Libraries Critical Theory Archive Research Resources Development Project will expand web-based resources of the established Critical Theory Archive to include critical theory from across the globe and make critical theory research easier to find and circulate.
Northwestern University Curriculum Program on the Global South

Critical Theory in the Global South is a critical theory curriculum initiative administered from Northwestern University that integrates intellectual traditions from the Global South through inter-university faculty collaborations, graduate student exchanges, book and article translations, workshops, and a concluding conference.
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Announcements

A bulletin board of news and updates from the ICCTP network of critical theory programs, centers and projects.