Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

The Black Register

Book Conversations

June 16, 2020 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Calendar

Tendayi Sithole (University of South Africa), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg), Thabang Monoa (University of Johannesburg), moderated by David Theo Goldberg (UC Irvine)

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs on Zoom for the first 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 […]

"Imported" Feminism and "Indigenous" Queerness: From Backlash to Transphobic Feminism in Transnational Japanese Context

Visiting Scholars

January 27, 2020 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Akiko Shimizu
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

As is often the case with many countries in “the rest,” women’s and/or feminist movements in Japan have often been criticized for uncritically importing and transplanting ideas from “the West” that have no relevance to, and are sometimes even incompatible with, the “local” “indigenous” tradition, culture and society of whatever those critics imagine as “Japan.” […]

Being Communist, Becoming Other

Visiting Scholars

November 25, 2019 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
315 Wheeler Hall

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

Etienne Balibar will reflect on his relationship to reading Marx, starting with Reading Capital, his early work co-written with Louis Althusser. He will seek to reconstruct his relation to Marx’s thought, communism, and engage the question of communism for the present and future. Etienne Balibar teaches at Columbia every Fall semester. He is Professor Emeritus […]

Anti-Neoliberal Feminism: A Reading from Within Present Struggles

Visiting Scholars

September 24, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Verónica Gago
Professor, Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

In Latin America, the meaning of neoliberalism remains contested, and debates on neoliberalism are ongoing. Complicating previous diagnoses, current feminist movements in the region have proposed new definitions grounded in concrete struggles. These have led to a rethinking of neoliberalism from below: an effort to rework the programs introduced by so-called “progressive” governments. The new […]

Dancing in a Posthuman World: Material Bodies and New Alliances

Visiting Scholars

September 05, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Marta Segarra
Research Professor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Professor of Gender Studies and French Studies, University of Barcelona

Introduction by Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley Co-Director, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs Response by Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature, History of Consciousness, and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz Marta Segarra’s lecture will consider how some beings are relegated to the external margins of the community and reduced to an […]

Between the Scholar and the Public Intellectual: The University in the Contemporary African Context

Visiting Scholars

May 10, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Mahmood Mamdani
Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda

Mahmood Mamdani is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) at Makere University in Uganda. He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he was also […]

To Be the Owner of My Own Person: Toward a Concept of Freedom as Heteronomy Without Servitude

Visiting Scholars

February 28, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Vladimir Safatle
Professor and Director of Research, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Today autonomy, defined as self-legislation and self-determination, appears to be a precondition of freedom. Autonomy is widely accepted as the normative horizon of claims for social emancipation and psychological maturity. Nevertheless, this understanding of autonomy depends on a fundamental metaphysical presupposition that must be submitted to criticism. This presupposition follows from the belief that the […]