Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Conversation on Doing Justice

Book Conversations

January 29, 2021 / 10:00 am / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event

Pablo Oyarzún (University of Chile), Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London), Paul North (Yale University), M. Ty (University of Madison, Wisconsin), moderated by Jacques Lezra (UC Riverside)

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. Doing Justice, a conversation with the author Pablo Oyarzún (University of Chile), Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London), Paul […]

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

Lectures

December 11, 2020 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event

Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Susana Draper (Princeton), Verónica Gago (UNSAM; Ni Una Menos; UBA), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY Graduate Center), Moderated by Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

Due to the popularity of this event, the first 500 participants to connect will participate in Zoom, and all other participants will be redirected to view the event as a livestream on our YouTube channel at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6ZVXkM2vrGveabQrTPvew/live

Defeat and the Future

Workshops

December 04, 2020 / 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event

Fadi A. Bardawil (Duke University), Paloma Duong (MIT), Nouri Gana (UCLA), moderated by Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley)

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. Many places in the world have been contending with experiences of defeat. Struggles for racial justice, revolutions, and uprisings are confronted with crushing powers. Colonial projects and military occupations continue to defeat emancipatory aspirations. And there is a global economic system that attacks and defeats local struggles for social and economic justice. One […]

Post-Imperial Oceanics

Other

November 04, 2020 - November 05, 2020 / 9:00 am - 11:00 am / Add to Calendar
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Organized by Sharad Chari (Department of Geography, Berkeley), Charne Lavery (Oceanic Humanities in the Global South, Wits), and Isabel Hofmeyr (Oceanic Humanities in the Global South, Wits)

6-8AM Honolulu | 12-2PM Buffalo | 5-7PM London | 6-8PM Johannesburg | 10:30-11:30PM Cochin | 1.30-2:30AM Adelaide A 2-day virtual conference that brings together a set of thinkers engaged with fragmented, layered and linked oceanic imperial processes, to think with the creative tensions between sociocultural processes across oceanic surfaces, and the mysteries of the submarine.

Conversation on Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire

Book Conversations

October 30, 2020 / 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event

María Pia López (Sociologist, Argentina), and Feminist Scholars Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley), and Leticia Sabsay (LSE), Moderated by Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. Spanish-English and English-Spanish interpretation will be available to the first 500 registered participants on Zoom. Habrá interpretación de español al inglés e inglés al español para los primeros 500 participantes registrados en Zoom. Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event […]

Fall 2020 CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture: Abolition Feminism

Co-sponsored events

October 22, 2020 / 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm / Add to Calendar

Angela Y. Davis (Political Activist, Scholar, Author, and Speaker), Gina Dent (University of California, Santa Cruz)

For more information, and instructions on how to view the live stream event, please visit the Center for Race & Gender event webpage. The Center for Race & Gender present their “Fall 2020 CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture: Abolition Feminism” with Angela Davis and Gina Dent. As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment […]

ARC Visual Activism Series, Michael Rakowitz

Colonial Destruction, Past and Present: Plunder, Waste, and Preservation

Workshops

September 25, 2020 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event

Malcom Ferdinand (CNRS), Jumana Manna (artist), Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College), moderated by Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

A conversation about environmental and colonial destructions, as well as the relationship between them. The participants (in their roles as artists, scholars, or activists) address the planetary crisis of our times in its relationship to past and present practices of plunder, waste-making, and preservation. The conversation aims to articulate a future open to multiple forms of life […]

Alfredo Jaar, Logo for America, 1987/2014.

Resolutely Black

Book Conversations

June 18, 2020 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar

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

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs on Zoom for the second of two inaugural events in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. These events will put two recently published books on Blackness and decoloniality into timely conversation with […]