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A talk by Veena Das, ‘Slum Acts’

The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & the Center for Transcultural Studies Jointly present ‘Slum Acts’ (Polity Press, 2022) Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) Respondents Piergiorgio Donatelli (Philosophy, Sapienza Università di Roma) Sameena Mulla (Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Emory University) Brighupati Singh (Psychiatry, Brown University; Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka

Surplus Data 

Surplus Data    Jeffrey Kirkwood (Binghamton University, State University of New York) Leif Weatherby (New York University)   Thursday April 7, 2022  5:30pm Central Time Kresge 1515  Remote participants may register for the hybrid lecture on Zoom   In the time of always-on computing, issues of data extraction and collection, surveillance, and privacy seem to navigate most of

2022 Critical Theory in Critical Times annual series workshop & reading group

The 2022 Critical Theory in Critical Times annual series workshop on April 1 will focus around the work of Nadia Urbinati (Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University) and, in particular, her book Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press). Nadia Urbinati will discuss this work with four commentators: William Mazzarella (University of Chicago), Paulina Ochoa