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Mar
James Baldwin's Afro-Optimism
Thursday, March 19th | 4:30–6:30pm | Room 5109 John E. Drabinski is Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. In addition to authoring three books, including most [...]
“The Passages of Walter Benjamin” film screening and discussion
Monday, March 30th | 6-8pm | Skylight Room A film screening followed by lecture and discussion with director Judith Wechsler and Susan Buck-Morss (The Graduate Center, CUNY). THE PASSAGES OF WALTER BENJAMIN. [...]
Symposium: The Enlightenment and its Other Trajectories
Wednesday, April 22nd | 10am–5:30pm | Room 5307 A full day of discussions featuring Banu Bargu (The New School), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), Massimiliano Tomba (The [...]
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Apr
Symposium: Thinking Through Tradition, Politics, and Violence
Friday, April 24th | 1–7pm | Skylight Room Featuring Talal Asad (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Wael Hallaq (Columbia University) about Asad's essay “Thinking about Tradition, Religion and [...]
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May
Marina Sitrin: Societies in Movement or Politics as Usual?
Marina Sitrin will open a discussion on how we might understand many of the struggles that have been taking place around the world over the [...]
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Aug
Tuesday, August 18th 2015 - The Ruse of Reconciliation?
The Ruse of Reconciliation? Discursive Contours, Impossibilities, and Modes of Resistance in the South African ‘Reconciliation Project’ A public presentation featuring: Garth Stevens, Brett Bowman, Gillian Eagle, [...]
13
Oct
Conference: Global Fashion Capitals
Tuesday, October 13th | 1:30–7:30PM Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center Visit the conference website for more information. The multilayered identity of New York as a global fashion [...]
15
Oct
Lisa Lowe: The Intimacies of Four Continents
A discussion of Lisa Lowe's The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015, Duke University Press), with Susan Buck-Morss, Kandice Chuh, and Eric Lott. October 15 | 4:30–6:30pm Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate [...]
10
Nov
Unthinking Sovereignty in the Postcolony: Yarimar Bonilla, Gregory Mann, Omar Dahbour, and Herman Bennett
A presentation by Yarimar Bonilla (Rutgers) on Non-Sovereign Futures: French Carribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015, University of Chicago Press) and Gregory Mann (Columbia) on From Empires to NGOs in the [...]