Categories - International Consortium of Critical Theory

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 […]

Black Studies in/from the Southern Hemisphere, towards a Global Frame

March 06, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

In a chapter entitled “Fanonian Futures,” David Scott points to the difference between the (Frantz) Fanon text that has resonated the most in the Northern Hemisphere — Black Skin, White Masks — and that which seemed most widely read in the South — The Wretched of the Earth, most especially “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness.” […]

Black Studies in/from the Southern Hemisphere, towards a Global Frame

1902/2012 South Africa & Translating Blackness

A Critical Phenomenology of Race and Social Reproduction

Civilizing through Food: French Fantasies about Gastronomy and the “Muslim Diet”

Race, Nature, and Naturalization in Film

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

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

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 […]

Dancing in a Posthuman World: Material Bodies and New Alliances

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

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 […]

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

Presentism: The Politics of Memory in the Age of Neoliberalism