Cannibal Capitalism How Our system is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet– and What We Can Do about It (Verso, 2022) Nancy Fraser (Philosophy, The New School) Respondents Ashley Bohrer (Gender and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame) Michael Dawson (Political Science, University of Chicago) Johanna Oksala (Philosophy, Loyola University-Chicago) ON ZOOM Friday, April
Summer School, July 1-6, 2024 Organized by The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Central European University (CEU) and the Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS) DEMOCRACY AND INEQUALITY The Challenge of a Society of Equals The application deadline is April 1, 2024. Once admitted, all costs related to participation will be covered by the organizers. For US-based students (including Northwestern students), airfare and
Making Space for Justice Social Movements, Collective Imagination and Political Hope (Columbia University Press, 2022) Michele Moody–Adams (Philosophy, Columbia University) Respondents Robin Celikates (Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin) Juliet Hooker (Political Science, Brown University) José Medina (Philosophy, Northwestern University) Convened by Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University) ON ZOOM Friday, February 2, 2024, 10 am to 12 pm
Insurgent Universality An alternative legacy of modernity (Oxford University Press, 2019) Massimiliano Tomba (History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz) Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the
Neither Settler Nor Native The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 2020) Mahmood Mamdani (Political Science, Columbia University) In case after case around the globe―from Israel to Sudan―the colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.
Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) Department of English & Center for Transcultural Studies jointly present A Lambert Conference Berlant’s America (A Symposium on the Legacies of Lauren Berlant) October 26 & 27, 2023 9:30 am– 5:00 pm Harris 108 Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan Rd, Evanston,
IT TAKES A MOVEMENT Social Mobilization and Rebuilding Democracy July 3-9, 2023 Organized by The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Central European University (CEU), and the Center of Transcultural Studies (CTS) — Around the world, democracies are breaking down. Many are being dismantled from within while others face attacks
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & the Center for Transcultural Studies Jointly present ‘Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum on History 4° Celsius: Search for Method in the Age of Anthropocene‘ (Duke University Press, 2020) Ian Baucom (English, Provost, University of Virginia) In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries
2022 Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 In Person July 18–22, 2022
