The Center for Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) and The Center for Transcultural Studies (An independent intellectual network with institutional roots in Chicago) Jointly present Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum (Session 25) on Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Peter Gordon (History, Philosophy, and German Studies, Harvard University) Respondents Gordon Finlayson (Philosophy, University of Sussex) Jacob McNulty (Philosophy, Yale University) Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales <EHESS>) ON ZOOM Friday, February 13, 2026 10 a.m. to
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy, University of Michigan) Respondents Daron Acemoglu (Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Axel Honneth (Philosophy, Columbia University) ON ZOOM Friday, January 9, 2026, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST Convened by Dilip
Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum (Session 22) on Democracy and Beauty The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B Du Bois Robert Gooding-Williams (Philosophy, Yale University) Respondents Lawrie Balfour (Politics, University of Virginia) Fred Moten (Performance Studies & Comparative Literature, New York University) Shatema Threadcraft (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University) ON ZOOM Friday, December 5, 2025. 10 a.m. to
Currents in media studies over recent decades have not only expanded the range of scholarly inquiries into once-marginalized historical and cultural subjects, but broadened our recognition of what constitutes media in the first place. Indeed, inherently decentralizing studies of the networks, industries, infrastructures, and ecologies of communication have reinforced and deepened the push to recover
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Jointly present a conference on “Rethinking and Unthinking Popular Sovereignty” Thursday-Friday 23-24 May 2024, 10:30am to 5pm Kresge Centennial Hall Room 2-350 https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/616161 Lunch and light refreshments will be served on both days.
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
