Contemporality: A Symposium on Politics, Time, and Thought
Committee on Globalization and Social Change CUNY Graduate Center
April 25th and 26th 2013 | Free and open to the public
Thursday 4:30pm-6:30pm | April 25th, 2013
Keynote Address CUNY Graduate Center, President’s Conference Room (8201.01)
David Scott, Anthropology, Columbia University “The Temporality of Generations” (Keynote)
6:30-8:30 Reception
Friday 8:45am-6:30pm | April 26, 2013
Contemporality: A Symposium on Politics, Time, and Thought
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room (9100)
8:45-9:15 Coffee
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks
Gary Wilder, Anthropology and Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center
9:30-11:15 Session I
“Deprovincializing Marx”
Harry Harootunian, History, NYU
“The Incommensurability of Psychoanalysis and History”
Joan W. Scott, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies
Facilitator: Uday Mehta, Politics and Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center
11:15-1:00 Session II
“Notes on the ‘Cellular Regime of Nationality’”
Kristin Ross, Comparative Literature, NYU
“The Stage of Adolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq”
Sara Pursley, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Facilitator: Manu Goswami, History, NYU
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Session III
“Untimely Africa”
Brian Goldstone, Society for Fellows Columbia University and Juan Obarrio, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
“Anti-Crisis”
Janet Roitman, Anthropology, New School for Social Research
Facilitator: Duncan Faherty, English, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College
4:00-4:15 Coffee
4:15-5:15 Closing Comments and Discussion
Peter Osborne, Philosophy, Kingston University
5:15-6:30 Reception
Image Source: Constantin Xenakis, Cones, Street-Action, Berlin, 1971
© Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki
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