Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Race, Nature, and Naturalization in Film

December 09, 2021 / 10:30 am - 12:30 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley, Face coverings required

Jumana Manna, Artist, Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

This seminar seeks to think about the role of nature and naturalization in the construction of statehood and racial regimes. It will involve a close reading and discussion of selected passages from writers that Jumana Manna has been engaged with, such as Cedric Robinson and Ann Laura Stoler, and watch excerpts from films by Deborah […]

Archivists, Plumbers, and Foragers

December 08, 2021 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, Face coverings required

Jumana Manna, Artist, Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

In this lecture, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as sculptor and filmmaker, and the differing yet complimentary processes of abstraction and storytelling that she employs within both mediums. She will focus on her ongoing inquiry into the paradoxes of the modernist urge to categorize and preserve. An urge that often entails an […]

‘Nonpolitical Distinctions’: A Phrase from Marx Revisited with Rei Terada

Escrituras geológicas: Desedimentación y huella en algunas autoras contemporáneas (Geological Writings: De-sedimentation and Trace in Some Contemporary Authors)

Co-sponsored events

December 01, 2021 / 10:00 am / Add to Calendar
Regístrese aquí / Register here

Cristina Rivera Garza, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Doctorate Program in Creative Writing at the University of Houston; Author, Translator, Critic
Natalia Brizuela, Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, ICCTP, UC Berkeley
Alfonso Fierro, PhD Candidate, Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor the upcoming event Escrituras geológicas: Desedimentación y huella en algunas autoras contemporáneas (Geological Writings: De-sedimentation and Trace in Some Contemporary Authors), part of the Center for Latin American Studies series “New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds.” […]

NATQ: An Audiovisual Lecture on Impossible Speech

Co-sponsored events

November 03, 2021 / 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event, Register Here

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, International Sound Artist and Professional Audio Investigator

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is proud to cosponsor the upcoming event “NATQ: An Audiovisual Lecture on Impossible Speech,” the inaugural event of the University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric Department 2021–2022 Colloquia Series. Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an international sound artist and professional audio investigator based in Beirut. His broad body of work […]

“Gaza is in the Heart”: Dispossession and Struggle in Palestine

Natalie Diaz and Ailton Krenak: On Borderlands

The House as a Laboratory of Capital: Finance, Housing, and Territory

Workshops

April 30, 2021 / 1:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event, Register Here

Luci Cavallero, Grupo de Investigación e Intervención Feminista, Universidad de Buenos Aires; ICCTP
Verónica Gago, Grupo de Investigación e Intervención Feminista, Universidad de Buenos Aires; ICCTP
Raquel Rolnik, LabCidade, Universidade de São Paulo
Paula Santoro, LabCidade, Universidade de São Paulo
Moderated by Natalia Brizuela, ICCTP, UC Berkeley

In this conversation, we want to make explicit and share the hypotheses and feminist research lines that we are developing by conceptualizing and problematizing the dynamics that focus on the domestic […]

Conversation on Doing Justice

Book Conversations

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

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)

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 North (Yale University), M. Ty (University of Madison, Wisconsin), moderated by Jacques […]