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.
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»]
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 from Peter Osborne’s talk, “Contemporaneity and Crisis: Reflections on the Temporalities of Social Change” is now available for viewing. [read more»]
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 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»]
Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in Intellectual History… [read more»]
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