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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 Espejo (Haverford College), Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern), and Axel Mueller (Northwestern).

The workshop will allow for a comfortable discussion format, and a stimulating dialogue between faculty and graduate students. We are glad to offer an opportunity to discuss this groundbreaking work with Nadia Urbinati herself.

This event is generously co-sponsored by The Center for Global Culture and Communication, the Kreeger-Wolf foundation, the Critical Theory Cluster, and the Department of Philosophy.

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 Within” summer school advances the twin mission of understanding the critical challenges democracy is facing and developing the democratic agendas that will meet these challenges under variable cultural and socio-economic conditions. Such a mission can only be secured by facilitating a robust dialogue among students, activists, and scholars assembled from all over the world. Students will leave the Summer School with a deeper knowledge of the specific challenges facing democracy in different contexts as well as a global understanding of how they are connected.

Given CGCC’s role in the Summer School, a minimum of two Northwestern graduate students will be admitted. Interested students should apply through the application portal on the Summer School’s website and then email Dilip Gaonkar (d-gaonkar@northwestern.edu) to indicate that they have applied.

The application deadline is February 28, 2022. Once admitted, all costs related to participation will be covered by the organizers. 

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, February 04, 2022
10 A.M CT

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 Center for Global Culture and Communication in association with the Center for Transcultural Studies

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 register to attend the talk over Zoom. To attend the talk on Zoom please register by following the link below. 
 

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, 2021, ON ZOOM, 10 A.M- 12 P.M. CT

Register https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlfuChrzsrHtWobi62mWYsyDYqaYTEFMh7

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

Friday, October 29, 2021, 10 A.M C.T. / 4 P.M. B.S.T./ 830 P.M. IST

Register https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qceCsrjMtE9eh5RC9e7jfHE2hH1k5Md2c

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