Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

The Time Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine

Lectures

April 04, 2024 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Nasser Abourahme
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Bowdoin College

Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books Discussant: Sharad Chari, Geography, UC Berkeley The question of settler colonialism has, once again, risen to the surface of global politics. But what exactly about settler colonialism makes it so unstable a political formation? Why is it that centuries after their […]

The Indigenous Anticolonial: Palestine, Memory, and Imaginaries of Liberation

Lectures

March 19, 2024 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Linda Tabar
Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex

Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books Discussant: Natalia Brizuela, Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media, UC Berkeley The Indigenous Anticolonial moves beyond the critique of Eurocentrism to analyze the overlooked role of anticolonial traditions in international politics and their contributions to political world-making. In conversation with […]

Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

Lectures

March 05, 2024 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Saree Makdisi
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA

Thinking from Palestine: Dispossession, Liberation, and Return Conversations on Three Recent and Forthcoming Books Discussant: Samera Esmeir, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment […]

Rethinking Sovereignty: Histories from the South

November 09, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Prathama Banerjee
Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India; Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

In this seminar, we ask if the concept of sovereignty—as it evolved out of European histories of early modern absolutist states and subsequently globalized via the work of colonialism and nationalism—works well in understanding the nature of political power in the world today. We begin the discussion by studying histories of kingship, caste, and indigeneity in South […]

The “Economy Question” in Contemporary Politics: Historical Reflections from India

November 07, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Prathama Banerjee
Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India; Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

After the linguistic and cultural turn of the past decades, the early twenty-first century has seen humanities scholars turn once more to the economy question. In this presentation, I explore what it means to rethink the economy after the 2008 recession, the 2010s occupy movements, the rise of anti-globalization authoritarianisms across the world, the destitution […]

Ukraine's Struggle for Self-Determination

Rethinking Gastro-Nationalism: Food, Political Environment, and Embodiment

Co-sponsored events

June 15, 2023 / 1:00 pm - 5:45 pm / Add to Calendar
Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France, Room F315, Maison de la Recherche | Zoom

Organized by ERRAPHIS (Equipe de Recherches sur les Rationalités Philosophiques et les Savoirs), Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès and cosponsored by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs at the University of California, Berkeley. Supported by the FACE Foundation, Transatlantic Partnership Agreement, “Food and Race. A Transatlantic Dialogue” and the Emilie du Châtelet Institute (Paris). Click […]

Relations of Water: Colonial Dispossession and Living Otherwise in a World on Fire

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March 13, 2023 / 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Add to Calendar
554 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

Alyosha Goldstein
Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

This talk is drawn from Goldstein’s current book manuscript, The Colonial Present: Histories of Dispossession beyond Settlement. It considers the colonial-capitalist politics of water for Indigenous peoples and other racialized peoples during the present moment of climate catastrophe. The juridical production of water in the US Southwest as a “natural resource” to be quantified and managed, and […]