Partha Chaterjee—Nationalism, Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism
With a presentation by Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Anthropology, Columbia University) and comments from Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political [...]
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Oct
Shadows of Universalism, Other Cosmopolitanisms: Historicizing Human Rights
With presentations by Samuel Moyn (Harvard Law School) and Lydia Liu (Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages, Columbia University) and comments by by Manu Bhagavan (History, CUNY Graduate [...]
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Oct
After Gezi, After the Elections, After ISIS: Politics in Turkey Now
After Gezi, After the Elections, After ISIS: Politics in Turkey Now A Conversation Friday, October 20, 2014 6:30 – 8:30 pm Room C198 This panel [...]
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Nov
November 20/21--Confronting Racial Capitalism: The Black Radical Tradition and the Cultures of Liberation
Co-sponsored with the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. Occasioned by the work of Cedric J. Robinson, this symposium brings together leading radical thinkers to [...]
December 4—On the Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Featuring Greg Grandin (History, NYU) in conversation with Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History, Duke University) and Duncan Faherty (English, The Graduate Center, CUNY). One morning in 1805, off a [...]
Militarization, Medicalization, Responsibility
A public presentation featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard, Columbia): “On Combat and Moral Transgression: emerging psychiatric theories of injury, ethics, and responsibility” and Jennifer Terry (UC Irvine): “Attachments to [...]
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder (Book Launch)
"Freedom Time" is astonishing in its originality, breadth of learning, rhetorical power, interdisciplinary reach, and theoretical sophistication. It thoroughly transforms our understanding of the dialogues and disputations that made up the 'Black' / French encounter. With this work, Gary Wilder establishes himself as one of the most compelling and powerful voices in French and Francophone critical studies. Achille Mbembe, author of "On the Postcolony"
Sadia Abbas on “How Injury Travels”
February 27 | 4:15–6:15pm | Room C415A Sadia Abbas (Rutgers University) explores responses to the colonial construction of religious subjects in South Asia. Undertaken in an [...]
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Mar
Public Presentation — How to Build the House of Taswir?: About the (Public) Transformation of Dreams, Letters and Things
Tuesday, March 17th | 6–8pm | Skylight Room First in [Walter Benjamin] mini-series, Thinking Constellations: A public presentation by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, thinker, writer, curator, architect of [...]
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Mar
Seminar / Atlas Session — How to Build an Altas of the House?: Experimenting with Epistemic Architecture(s)
Wednesday, March 18th | 4–6pm | Room 5307 Following a public presentation on March 17th, please join us for a seminar / atlas session with A.S. Bruckstein [...]