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Cannibal Capitalism: How Our system is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet– and What We Can Do about It

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

Call for Applications: Summer School 2024

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

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

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

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.

Berlant’s America

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,

Rhetoric, Media, Publics Summer Institute: Media Aesthetics V

Media Aesthetics V The annual Rhetoric, Media, and Publics Summer Institute at Northwestern University is scheduled to be held on July 17-21, 2023 (with arrival July 16 and departure July 22). Institute conveners are Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric, Media, and Publics, Northwestern University) and James J. Hodge (English, Northwestern University). The theorization of media often begins with a story about

Midwest Media Aesthetics Workshop 2: A Graduate Student Conference

Midwest Media Aesthetics Workshop 2: A Graduate Student Conference   A Collaborative Project between Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan On Zoom, Friday, March 11, 2022, 10:30 am to 3 pm Register https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUucuigqTsqEtPeWKkB-XAuPYejgfg50NNq

Call for applications: Summer School at Central European University, Hungary

The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), along with Central European University (CEU) and Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS), is co-sponsoring a week-long summer school titled “Dismantling Democracy from Within.” The summer school will take place on CEU’s Budapest campus from  June 27 to July 2, 2022. For more information on the program, please visit the Summer School’s website. The “Dismantling Democracy from

Questioning the Present: The Tyranny of Merit

The Tyranny of Merit A talk by Michael J. Sandel (Professor of Government, Harvard University,  United States)   Respondents Charles Taylor (Philosophy, Professor Emeritus, McGill University, Canada) Nilufer Gole (Professor of Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France) Craig Calhoun (Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, United States)   On Zoom Friday,