Wed 11/17, 12 pm Pacific Time
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The opening conversation of a new series will examine the recent history and present urgency of protests and social movements in Latin America, with Francia Márquez, Verónica Gago, and Lucía Cavallero in conversation with Tianna Paschel and Elena Schneider.
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The event will be in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Hopkins Humanities Collaboratory Faculty Outreach Program
Apply now through February 15, 2022
Program dates: June 1–August 6, 2022
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Humanities Collaboratory Faculty Outreach Program is for visiting faculty and/or director-level staff from any colleges and universities nationally. Each faculty/staff member can submit an application where they will nominate one graduate student from their institution to travel with them to Johns Hopkins for this residential and fully immersed training program. Your two-person team will gain hands-on training in the new pedagogical model for humanities summer research, observe the Humanities Collaboratory, participate in webinars and info sessions both pre- and post-program, and have hands-on support from post-Collaboratory mentoring to program design as you launch similar programs at your institutions.
Read MoreCPCT Research Seminar 2021-22: What is Global Critical Theory?
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm (BST)
Venue: Online
[Zoom registration link: https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t5RX4pGtQEiGxD9VthSSGg]
Dates:
Autumn: 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December 2021
Spring: 26 January; 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March 2022
Summer: 27 April; 11, 25 May; 8 June 2022
CPCT’s annual research seminar meets on a bi-weekly basis and is open to centre members, graduate affiliates, and other interested staff and students. It aims to serve as a forum for philosophical work and dialogue at Goldsmiths.
… This seminar seeks to begin to pose the problem of a ‘global critical theory’ by undertaking a series of soundings of conceptual debates emerging in different locales and conjunctures that foreground the non-Western genesis of crucial problems of contemporary critical theory, as well as the situated problematisation of the forms of historical difference and unevenness that mark the travels of critical theory…
For a detailed session plan including further readings and links to texts, please visit https://cpct.uk/2021-2022/.
Read MoreSaid’s Palestine
Tuesday, June 1 at 12:00 PM PST
Online, Register Here
On Tuesday, June 1 at 12:00 PM PST, UCHRI will host a conversation on Said’s Palestine with Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard College and Columbia University), Esmat Elhalaby (UC Davis), Saree Makdisi (UC Los Angeles), Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian (Hebrew University), and Judith Butler (UC Berkeley).
Read MoreThe New School ICSI Distinguished Public Lectures with Dipesh Chakrabarty, Hortense Spillers, and Noam Chomsky
The New School, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry
Distinguished Public Lecture Series featuring Dipesh Chakrabarty (in conversation with Jay Bernstein), Hortense Spillers (in conversation with Patricia J. Williams), and Noam Chomsky (in conversation with Nancy Fraser)
June 8-10, 2021
All lectures will begin at 6pm EST
Online via Zoom, register here
Please note that registration is limited and you may be placed on a waitlist
Interfere Issue II Born in Flames: Call for Papers
Articles submitted to: interferejournal@gmail.com
Please refer to our submission guidelines.
Deadline for submission: 31st May 2021
Due to be published: November 2021
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This issue of Interfere Journal invites contributions in political theory that analyze transformation through crisis …
Read MoreNew Developments in Post-Foundational Political Thought: Democratic Politics after COVID
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
School of Humanities and Social Science
University of Brighton
Wednesday 5th of May 13.30 – 19.30 UK Time
With Oliver Marchart, Clare Woodford, Luciana Cadahia, German Primera,
Paula Biglieri, and Mark Devenney
If you would like to participate please email Ian Sinclair: i.a.sinclair@brighton.ac.uk well in advance of Wednesday 5th to be set up on the Microsoft Team used for the event.
This workshop brings together colleagues from around the world to debate their recent contributions to post-foundational political thought…
Read MoreSaidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
Monday, April 19, 2021
4:00 PM PST
Online, Register Here
The Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman as the featured guest at our inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture …
ICCTP Statement Opposing the Attack on Critical Theories by French Government Officials
The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) condemns the recent efforts of the French minister of higher education, Frédérique Vidal, to discredit critical theories under the spurious rubric of “Islamo-gauchisme.” Her inflammatory caricature was presented before the National Assembly on February 16, 2021 when she called for a persecutory investigation into research areas such as postcolonial, decolonial, and gender and critical race studies. We find this proposal to be a dangerous and unacceptable violation of academic freedom. Disparaging entire academic fields as “divisive” and “gangrenous” falsifies these diverse fields and impedes the free circulation of knowledge. The term “Islamo-leftism” …
Read MoreMalcom Ferdinand “Facing the Colonial Toxicity of the World: the Case of the French Caribbean”
On April 10, 2021, at 12 pm EST The Cooper Union Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series presents Malcom Ferdinand’s presentation “Facing the Colonial Toxicity of the World: the Case of the French Caribbean.”
For more information, please visit The Cooper Union Intra-Disciplinary Seminar web page.
Online event, register here. …
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