Berkeley Visiting Scholar Lectures
Past Events
“Imported” Feminism and “Indigenous” Queerness: From Backlash to Transphobic Feminism in Transnational Japanese Context
Akiko Shimizu, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Monday, January 27, 2020, 5-7 pm
Being Communist, Becoming Other
Etienne Balibar, Anniversary Chair Professor at the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University and Visiting Professor, Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
Monday, November 25, 2019, 5-7 pm
Critique/De-coloniality Diaspora
Nadia Yala Kisukidi and Rocío Zambrana
470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Monday, May 6, 2019, 5-7pm
Anti-Neoliberal Feminism: A Reading from Within Present Struggles
Verónica Gago, Professor, Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Monday, September 24, 2018, 5-7 pm
Exploratory Notes on New Fascisms
Zeynep Gambetti, Associate Professor of Political Theory, Boğazici University, Turkey
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 5-7 pm
Presentism: The Politics of Memory in the Age of Neoliberalism
Enzo Traverso, Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 5-7 pm
Dancing in a Posthuman World: Material Bodies and New Alliances
Marta Segarra, Research Professor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Professor of Gender Studies and French Studies, University of Barcelona
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, September 5, 2017, 5-7 pm
Between the Scholar and the Public Intellectual: The University in the Contemporary African Context
Mahmood Mamdani, Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 5-7 pm
To Be the Owner of My Own Person: Toward a Concept of Freedom as Heteronomy Without Servitude
Vladimir Safatle, Professor and Director of Research, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 5-7 pm
