Category Archives: Videos

On the Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

VIDEO: Roundtable with Tim Mitchell and others on Carbon Democracy

A short clip of the Carbon Democracy event can be find here: The full video can be viewed here: Event Details:

VIDEO: Arjun Appadurai – The Future as Cultural Fact Roundtable

Watch video from the roundtable discussion about Arjun Appadurai’s book The Future as Cultural Fact, with comments by Peter Hitchcock, Kandice Chuh, and Mandana Limbert [read more»]

VIDEO: Jean and John Comaroff – Theory from the South

Watch video from the roundtable discussion featuring John and Jean Comaroff about their book Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (Paradigm, 2011) with discussion by Claudio Lomnitz, Julie Livingston, and Susan Buck-Morss. [read more»]

VIDEO: Pulling the Emergency Brake: The New Global Movements and ‘Now Time’

Watch video from the afternoon of dialogue on global social movements [read more»]

VIDEO+PODCAST: Peter Osborne on Contemporaneity and Crisis

Video from Peter Osborne’s talk, “Contemporaneity and Crisis: Reflections on the Temporalities of Social Change” is now available for viewing. [read more»]

Imagine Real Democracy: Dialogue Among Global Social Movements Actors

This event, presented by the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, brought together in conversation young activists from Egypt, Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the U.S. The conversation addressed the origins of the movements in each country and the linkages between them, especially in terms of the creation and use of novel democratic forms, the importance of [read more»]

Vinay Gidwani – Gramsci at the Margins: A Pre-History of Nepal’s Maoist Movement

Vinay Gidwani is a Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota and The CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a former member of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. This talk, titled “Gramsci at the Margins: A Pre-History Nepal’s Maoist Movement” was given at the CUNY Graduate Center on November 1, 2011 as [read more»]

Committee on Globalization and Social Change

CGSC is a transdisciplinary working group committed to reflecting critically on the relationship between contemporary transformations typically associated with globalization and the political futures that may be opened or obstructed by them.