From 2017 to 2020 the International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs held a conference cycle during phase I of the Mellon grant. The conferences included nine meetings focused on “the critical task of the university,” a conference theme on its own, each of which took up a specific critical task: the critique of contemporary forms of violence; critical memory studies (the political sense of time, focusing on transitions and aftermaths in the wake of unjust regimes and violent conflict, but also on conceiving futurity); and populism and democracy (is populism an uncritical political position? What role does it play in …