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A talk by Juliet Hooker, ‘Disobedience in Black: BLM and Black politics beyond democratic sacrifice

‘Rhetoric and Politics of Protest and Direct Action’ Disobedience in Black BLM and Black Politics Beyond Democratic Sacrifice Juliet Hooker (Political Science, Brown University) Respondents Alan Chavoya (Philosophy, Northwestern University) Alvin Bernard Tillery, Jr. (Political Science, Northwestern University) On Zoom, Thursday February 3, 2022, 4 P.M. C.T. Register  https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdeqoqT4vG9WL0U8iHGGkR6YBInMbTTjy Please download the readings here.

Colegio Nacional Lectures on State and Violence in Contemporary Mexico

‘Questioning the Present Series’ Colegio Nacional Lectures on State and Violence in Contemporary Mexico Claudio Lomnitz (Anthropology, Columbia University)  Respondents: Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) Fernando Escalante (Sociology, El Colegio de Mexico) ON ZOOM, Friday, December 10, 2021, 10am C.T. https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkdeuprzgtHdQHN5wKFJbqDlTgryo_VPxt For the readings/ lectures please visit https://thects.org/publications/lomnitzlectures This event is organized by the

The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly

The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly Jason Frank (Government, Cornell University): Respondents: Robert Hariman (Program in Rhetoric & Public Culture, Northwestern University) Jessica Winegar (Anthropology, Northwestern University) November 12, 2021, 12 P.M.- 2 P.M. 1515 Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL If you are unable to attend the talk in person, you can also

Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

‘Media Aesthetics Series’ Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Oxford Up, 2021) Pablo Boczkowski (Communication Studies, Northwestern University) Respondents: Charlie Beckett, Media and Communications, London School of Economics Teresa Correa, School of Communication, Diego Portales University Marwan M. Kraidy, Dean and CEO, Northwestern University in Qatar Friday Nov 5,

Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India

Questioning the Present Online Series Jointly Sponsored by CGCC and CTS Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Mukulika Banerjee (Anthropology, London School of Economics, United Kingdom) Respondents Deepak Mehta (Sociology & Anthropology, Ashoka University, India) Lisa Mitchell (South Asia Studies & Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America) On ZOOM

A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should be Uncivil

Rhetoric and Politics of Protest and Direct Action (RPPDA): A workshop series A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should be Uncivil (Oxford Up, 2018) by Candice Delmas (Philosophy, Northeastern University) Respondents: Cristina Lafont (Philosophy, Northwestern) Ryan Bince (Doctoral Student in Rhetoric & Public Culture, Northwestern University) ON ZOOM   October 14, 2021, 1.00pm-3.00pm

Summer Institute 2021: Media Aesthetics 3

Media Aesthetic III: Structures of Experience The theme of the 2021 summer institute in media aesthetics is “structures of experience.” In his 1977 book Marxism and Literature, Raymond Williams briefly entertains the phrase “structures of experience” as an alternative formulation of his now-famous notion of “structures of feeling.” This year’s summer institute takes inspiration from this

‘Postcolonial Bergson’

A talk by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ‘Postcolonial Bergson‘ traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Discussants Naveeda Khan (Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University) Charles Taylor (Philosophy, Professor emeritus, McGill University) Gary Wilder (Anthropology/French, Graduate Center, CUNY) On Zoom June 3, 2021

‘The Politics of Nonviolence’

‘The Politics of Nonviolence’ Karuna Mantena Discussants Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, NU) José Maria Medina (Philosophy, NU) On Zoom, Thursday, May 20, 2021, 11 A.M.- 1 P.M. C.S.T Gandhi and King insisted that nonviolent action was both morally and practically superior to the use of force in waging political conflict, overcoming oppression, and advancing social change.  And yet the political

A presentation and dialogue on two recent books on digital culture and aesthetics

A presentation and dialogue on two recent books on digital culture and aesthetics: Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) and The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance by Anna Watkins Fisher (University of Michigan). The Play in the System explores what