Friday, February 7th: Imperial Debris: Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler A Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler (New School for Social Research) on the publication of [...]

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, (Jadaliyya/Tadween Publishing), a collection of essays intended as a pedagogical resource for those teaching and studying recent events in Turkey.

Launch for a new book by Paul Amar: The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

A Book Launch and Discussion with Anthony Alessandrini, on the publication of Finding Something Different: Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics (2013), with discussants J. Michael Dash, Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, and Comparative Lit at NYU and Kandice Chuh, English Graduate Center.

A symposium exploring the critical horizons of Marxism and Postcolonialism in contemporary social thought with papers by Vinay Gidwani, Anne-Maria Makhulu, Jini Kim Watson and comments by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

A symposium exploring the questions, conditions, and politics of global critical theory in the contemporary with papers by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Manu Goswami, and Yoav DiCapua, and with comments by Uday Mehta.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme but not exceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the [...]

Renzo Martens is a controversial Dutch artist and filmmaker who in 2010 founded the Institute for Human Activities, an arts-based development program in Democratic Republic [...]

Marina Sitrin (Visiting Scholar, Center for Place Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center) and Dario Azzelini (Institute for Sociology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) present [...]

Anthony Alessandrini is an Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. His new book Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics focuses on a [...]