In conjunction with each year’s seminar theme, The Committee on Globalization and Social Change invites a number of speakers to participate in seminar discussions, give a public lecture, and host a round table discussion/workshop with graduate students and faculty. Listed below are the scheduled speakers and events related to the Committee’s seminar, which is in addition to the other events sponsored by the Committee.
Spring 2014 Public Events
Spring 2014 Public Events
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The Contemporaneity of Postcolonial Thinking?
Committee on Globalization and Social Change
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Spring 2014
Wednesday, February 5th: Academics Writing Fiction: Ruth Behar and Paul Stoller in Conversation
6:30pm to 8pm | Skylight Room
Anthropologists Ruth Behar and Paul Stoller consider the possibilities and place of fiction within the social sciences, and reflect on the kinds of creative and experimental writing that they and other academics have engaged in. The panel will be moderated by Sujatha Fernandes, Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY.
Friday, February 7th: Imperial Debris: Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler
1:30pm to 4pm | Skylight Room
A Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler on the publication of Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (Duke University Press, 2013). In conversation with Fiona Lee, Uday Mehta, Chelsea Schields, Neferti Tadiar, Megan Vaughan, and Gary Wilder.
Friday, March 14th: “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey
6:30 to 8:30pm |Room C198
A discussion of the Gezi Park protests, which erupted in Istanbul in late May 2013 with Anthony Alessandrini, Jay Cassano, Louis Fishman, Aslı Iğsız, Elif Sarı, Cihan Tekay, and Emrah Yildiz. The event coincides with the publication of “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, published by Jadaliyya and Tadween Publishing, a collection of essays intended as a pedagogical resource for those teaching and studying recent events in Turkey.
Friday, March 21st: The Security Archipelago—Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism: Book launch and discussion with Paul Amar
4:00pm–6:00pm | Room C201–202
In The Security Archipelago (Duke University Press), Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt.
Thursday, March 27th: Finding Something Different: Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Book launch and Discussion with Anthony Alessandrini
4:30pm to 6:30pm | Room 5109
Anthony Alessandrini presents Finding Something Different: Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics. With discussants J. Michael Dash, professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, and Comparative Lit at NYU and Kandice Chuh, English CUNY Grad Center.
Friday, April 4th: Critical Horizons: Beyond Marxism vs. Postcolonialism: A Symposium
9:30am to 6:30pm | Room 5307
Papers by Vinay Gidwani, Geography, University of Minnesota; Anne-Maria Makhulu, Anthropology, Duke University; and Jini Kim Watson, English, NYU. With comments by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, April 25th: Globalizing Critical Theory: Symposium
1:00–5:15PM | Room C203/204
With papers by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, French and Philosophy, Columbia University; Manu Goswami, History, NYU; and Yoav DiCapua, History, University of Texas, Austin. With Comment by Uday Mehta, Professor of Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
Monday, May 5th: Rethinking the South African Crisis
7:00–9:00PM | Bluestockings Books (172 Allen St., New York)
Gillian Hart discusses her new book, Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony.
Thursday, May 8th: Conversation with Artist Renzo Martin
Renzo Martens will present the Institute of Human Activities and discuss its relationship to his previous work in the Congo. In conversation with Claire Bishop (Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY) and Ashley Dawson (English,College of Staten and Graduate Center, CUNY).
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Fall 2013 Public Events
Fall 2013 Public Events
September
- 9/13 10:00-2:00Bodies, Histories, & Empire in Africa: Symposium
Antoinette Burton (History Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois), Julie Livingston (History, Rutgers University) and Megan Vaughan (History, the Graduate Center, CUNY)A symposium - 9/20 4:00-6:00Before Globalization
Leela Gandhi, Suvir Kaul, Ania Loomba, and Feisal MohamedDiscussion moderated by Kim Hall - 9/27 7:00-9:00Said is Dead. Long Live Said!
Martín Espada (poetry), Chee Malabar (music), Kade Ellis (law/social media), Anjali Kamat (journalism), Daisy Rockwell (art), Robyn Spencer (academia)Discussion moderated by Manan Ahmed
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Spring 2013 Public Events
Spring 2013 Public Events
February
March
- 3/8 Mayanthi Fernando, Yarimar Bonilla: Thinking Politics Through Postcolonial France, A discussion with Judith Surkis, Kaiama Glover, Vincent Crapanzano and Tony Allessandrini
- 3/12 T.J. Demos: Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art, Co-Sponsored with Center for Humanities and Art History
Fall 2012 Public Events
Fall 2012 Public Events
September
- 9/4Globalization Seminar and Reception
- 9/15 4:30pmThinking Movements in Time: A Discussion led by Susan Buck-Morss, Marina Sitrin, and Gary Wilder, Free University of NYC, Madison Square Park
October
- 10/26 1-8pmPulling the Emergency Brake – The New Global Movements and Now Time: A Day of Dialogue, Activists from Greece, Spain, and US Occupy in Dialogue with Marina Sitrin, Francis Fox-Piven, Susan Buck-Morss Room 5307
- 10/30 4:30-6:30Jean and John Comaroff: Theory from the South,Roundtable with Jean and John Comaroff on their recent book Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, with commentators: Susan Buck-Morss, Claudio Lomnitz, Soulèymane Bachir Diagne. THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY, NEW DATE TBD.
November
- 11/6 4:30pm Peter Osborne (Philosophy, Kingston University, London), Contemporaneity and Crisis: Reflections on the Temporalities of Social Change, Public Lecture Skylight Room
- 11/7 12pm Peter Osborne, Workshop Discussion Room 5109
- 11/13 6:30pm Marina Sitrin Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina, Book Launch and Dialogue with Michael Menser, Philosophy, Brooklyn College Room 5109
- 11/20 7pmVerónica Gago and Diego Schtulwark (Colectivo Situaciones, Argentina), Panel Discussion Room 5307
December
- 12/4 12pm Lisa Lowe (English, Tufts University), Metaphors of Globalization, Lunchtime Q&A, Room 5109
- 12/4 4:30-6:30 Lisa Lowe, Archives of Liberalism: The Intimacies of Four Continents, Public Lecture Skylight Room
- 12/11 End of Semester Reception, Details Forthcoming
Spring 2012 Public Events
Spring 2012 Public Events
- 2/14Wendy Brown, Political Science, University of California Berkeley“Sacrificial Citizenship: Neoliberal Austerity Politics”
- 2/15Wendy Brown, Roundtable Discussion and Graduate Student Workshop
- 2/21Engseng Ho, Anthropology and History, Duke University“Dubai and Singapore: Global City, Maritime Port, or Merchant State?”
- 2/29Prabhat Patnaik, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Board, Government of KeralaPublic Lecture on Global Capitalism
- 3/2Brett Story, FilmmakerScreening and Discussion of her film Land of Destiny (2010)
- 3/5Allan DeSouza, Photographer“Coffee Colored People (By the Score)”Co-Sponsored with Center for Humanities
- 3/13Roger Berkowitz, Political Studies and Human Rights and Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Bard College“Globalization and the Human Condition”
- 3/19Laurent Dubois, Romance Studies and History, Duke University and Greg Grandin, History, New York University“Telling Histories”Co-Sponsored by Center for Humanities
- 3/20John Holloway, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico“Rage Against the Rule of Money”
- 3/30Solidarity Symposium: TBA
- 4/19Symposium: China and the HumanCo-Sponsored by Social Text and Center for Humanities
- 4/2Yves Cabbanes, Urban Planning, University College London and UN Advisory Group on Forced EvictionsPublic Lecture
- 4/28Eyal Weizmann, Architect and Dept. Visual Culture, Goldsmiths University“Common Assembly” SeminarHosted by Center for Humanities
Fall 2011 Public Events
Fall 2011 Public Events
- 10/3Etienne Balibar “Europe, America, and the Crisis: A Philosopher’s Remarks”
- 10/5Etienne Balibar Graduate Student Workshop and Roundtable Discussion
- 10/14Leti Volpp Indigenous as Alien Co-Sponsored with Center for Humanities and Revolutionizing American Studies
- 10/18Imagine Real Democracy Dialogue Among Global Social Movement Actors (Egypt, Spain, US) Panel Discussion Moderated by Marina Sitrin, Committee on Globalization and Social Change
- 10/24Sujatha Fernandes, Imani Perry, William Upski Wimsatt, Julio Cardenas Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Generation Panel and Book Launch. Co-Sponsored by the PhD Program in Sociology, Center for the Study of Women and Society, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and Verso Books
- 11/9Arundathi Roy Walking with the Comrades A Reading Followed by Discussion with Peter Hitchcock and Ruthie Gilmore, Directors of the CUNY Center for Place, Culture and Politics Co-Sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Center for Humanities
- 11/22Jeremy Brecher “What Can 99-Percenters Learn from the History of Social Movements?” Discussion from his book Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action and its implications for the Occupy movements