Politics of Translation: Translation, Nation, and Gender – Online Colloquium

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September 1-2, 2022 Palace Moise, Cres (Croatia) UNIRI CAS SEE & IFDT Full Schedule Zoom link: Meeting ID: 899 3568 8735 Passcode: 357666 Translation is political because it is a relation, a context of negotiating power. It also dictates an epistemological approach, inviting a complex analysis of gender, class, race, or national and other hierarchies’ relations and intersection. It is the opportunity for transformation, for becoming other (devenir autre, Deleuze and Guattari), although the political quality of that devenir is never guaranteed. As the occasion for a metamorphosis, translation is what Étienne Balibar now, since the conservative revolution that shattered …

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¡No son 30 pesos, son 30 años! Social Movements in Latin America

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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.

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CPCT Research Seminar 2021-22: What is Global Critical Theory?

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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/.

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Said’s Palestine

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Tuesday, June 1 at 12:00 PM PST
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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).

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The New School ICSI Distinguished Public Lectures with Dipesh Chakrabarty, Hortense Spillers, and Noam Chomsky

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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

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New Developments in Post-Foundational Political Thought: Democratic Politics after COVID

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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…

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Panel: Universities at Risk

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Please join Zeynep Gambetti, Andrea Petö from the CEU, Athena Athanasiou from Panteion University, Gazela Pudar Drasko from the University of Belgrade, Fernanda Martins from the PUCRS, Brazil, and the Bogazici University student platform Kelepçesiz Akademi Saturday, March 27 @ 18:00 (GMT+3) for the panel Universities at Risk.
Registration Form:  https://forms.gle/t6nHeqQVhUKFXhMC8
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1364837110539171/
The event will also be live streamed via Youtube.

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