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Insurgent Universality:
An Alternative Legacy of Modernity
Friday, December 8, 2023
10am CST

Featuring:
Massimiliano Tomba (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Respondents:
John Brenkman (Comparative Literature and English, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, Emeritus)
Anne Norton (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Uday Mehta (Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center)

Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)

Free and open to the public. On Zoom.

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