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2024-2025 Seminar Series

Fall 2024 Seminar Series

Joe Pateman

Date: Monday, October 21, 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: ‘Works in Progress Talk’: V. I. Lenin’s Struggle Against Racism

Margaret Haderer

Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Topic: Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin and its Legacies for Today

Past Series

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

Antonio-Martin Porras-Gomez

Date: Monday, November 6, 2023
Time: 2:45 – 4:15 PM
Topic: The European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI): Constitutional Implications and the Path to a ‘Supranational Upgrade’

Winter 2024 Seminar Series

Alexis Carré

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Topic: Europe in Crisis: Populism, Polarization, and the Postnational Project

Fall 2022 Seminar Series

Mohamed Abdou

Date: October 7, 2022
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Reflections on Islam and Anarchism

Joyce Green

Date: November 4, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Myth and Memory Politics: Conceptualizing New Political Orders

Siba N’Zatiouls Grovogui

Date: November 14, 2022
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Dutch Affinities: Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Empire

Daniel Drache

Date: December, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Why populism keeps on winning? Blinking red lights all over the map, including Brazil, Canada, and the United States, among others, warn us of the global crisis ahead. What can we do about it?

Winter 2023 Seminar Series

John Peters

Date: Friday, January 27, 2023
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Financialization, Labour Market Deregulation, and Post-Democracy in Canada: What are the Connections? And Why Should the Left Care

Tobias Hof

Date: Friday, January 27. 2023
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: State of Emergency? Right-Terrorism in Germany and Italy

Shray Mehta

Date: Monday, February 27. 2023
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Interregnum Politics: Ethnographic Reflections on Dalit Social Movements in Gujarat, India

Elisa Oreglia

Date: Friday, March 10, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Topic: PlatforWhat we talk about when we talk about the Digital Silk Roads

David Nieborg

Date: Monday, May 29, 2023
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Topic: Platforms & Cultural Production: A book talk

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

Heather Berg

Date: Friday, October 29, 2021
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Christy Thornton

Date: Friday, November 5, 2021
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy

Ángela Vergara

Date: Friday, November 26, 2021
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile

Winter 2022 Seminar Series

Blair Fix

Date: Friday, January 21, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Redistributing Income Through Hierarchy

Eli Friedman

Date: Friday, January 28, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás in conversation with Jeffery R. Webber

Date: Friday, February 4, 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Topic: Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

Katy Fox-Hodess

Date: Friday, February 11, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Dockworker Power and Capitalist Totality: A Critique of the Power Resources Approach

Julian Germann

Date: Friday, March 4, 2022
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Topic: Unwitting Architect: German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism

Daniel Andrés López

Date: Friday, March 11, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Topic: Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute

Fall 2020 Seminar Series

Thea Riofrancos

Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador

Johanna Fernández

Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: The Young Lords: A Radical History

Robert Nichols

Date: Monday, November 2, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory

Anthony Farley

Date: Monday, November 9, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Trump’s Undead Americans

Sheri Berman

Date: Friday, December 4, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: The Decline of Social Democracy, the Rise of Populism and Democratic Decay

Athina Karatzogianni

Date: Monday, December 7, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Sleeping on a Volcano: The Ideologization Process on Digital Networks

Winter 2021 Seminar Series

Aaron Jaffe

Date: Monday, January 11, 2021
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: The Theoretical Grounds and Entailments of Social Reproduction Theory

Adom Getachew

Date: Monday, January 18, 2021
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Quinn Slobodian

Date: Monday, February 1, 2021
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Elite Losers: Trump, Steel, and the Backlash Against Neoliberal Constitutionalism from Above

Ashley Bohrer

Date: Monday, February 8, 2021
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: Beyond Flow: Capitalism, Confinement, and Captivity

Ali Rlza Güngen

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Topic: Turkey’s Public Banks amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case of Authoritarian Crisis Management

Enzo Traverso

Date: Friday, April 9, 2021
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Topic: “The Locomotives of History”: Historicizing Revolution