Events
Cannibal Capitalism:
How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do about It
Friday, April 5, 2024
10am CST
Featuring:
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)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
Making Space for Justice:
Social Movements, Collective Imagination and Political Hope
Friday, February 2, 2024
10am CST
Featuring:
Michele Moody-Adams (Philosophy, Columbia University)
Respondents:
Robin Celikates (Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin)
Juliet Hooker (Political Science, Brown University)
José Medina (Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
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.
Neither Settler Nor Native:
The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Friday, September 29, 2023
10am CST
Featuring:
Mahmood Mamdani (Political Science, Columbia University)
Respondents:
Craig Calhoun (Social Sciences, Arizona State University)
Linford Fisher (History, Brown University)
Nandita Sharma (Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
The Force of Non-Violence
Friday, June 2, 2023
10am CST
Featuring:
Judith Butler (Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, Comparative Theory and Critical Theory, UC Berkeley)
Respondents:
Jay Bernstein (Philosophy, The New School)
Anne Boyer (Poet, Essayist, and Writer, Kansas City Art Institute)
José Medina (Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South
Friday, February 3, 2023
10am CST
Featuring:
Prathama Banerjee (History and Political Theory, Center for the Study of Developing Societies-CSDS, New Delhi)
Discussants:
Humberto Beck (Center for International Studies, El Colegio de México)
Murad Idris (Political Science, University of Michigan)
Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Languages & Civilizations and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
The Populist Century
Friday, December 2, 2022
10am CST
Featuring:
Pierre Rosanvallon (Modern and Contemporary Political History, Collège de France)
Discussants:
Michael Sandel (Government, Harvard University)
Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University)
Nadia Urbinati (Political Science, Columbia University)
Organizer:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
History 4° Celsius: Search for Method in the Age of Anthropocene
Friday, October 7, 2022
10am CDT
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Ian Baucom
Discussants: Prathama Banerjee, Claire Colebrook, and Debjani Ganguly
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
Click here to read a short excerpt of The Populist Century.
Slum Acts
Friday, April 22, 2022
10am CDT
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Veena Das
Discussants: Piergiorgio Donatelli, Sameena Mulla, and Brighupati Singh
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
The Tyranny of Merit
Friday, February 4, 2022
10am CST
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Michael Sandel
Discussants: Charles Taylor, Nilüfer Göle, and Craig Calhoun
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
Click here to read "Winners and Losers," chapter 1 in The Tyranny of Merit.
Colegio Nacional Lectures on State and Violence in Contemporary Mexico
Friday, December 10, 2021
10am CST
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Claudio Lomnitz
Discussants: Veena Das and Fernando Escalante
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
Click here to read a translation of Claudio Lomnitz's lectures at El Colegio Nacional.
Cultivating Democracy:
Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Friday, October 29, 2021
10am CDT | 4pm BST | 8:30pm IST
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Mukulika Banerjee
Discussants: Deepak Mehta and Lisa Mitchell
Postcolonial Bergson
June 3, 2021
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Discussants: Naveeda Khan, Charles Taylor, and Gary Wilder
Theory of the Gimmick:
Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
April 29, 2021
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Sianne Ngai
Discussants: Mark Greif, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, and Leigh Claire LaBerge
I Am the People: Refletions on Popular Sovereignty Today
April 8, 2021
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Partha Chatterjee
Discussants: Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Ritty Lukose, and Lars Tønder
China's Heart of Darkness:
Prince Han Fei and Chairman Xi Jinping
February 25, 2021
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Zha Jianying
Discussants: Loubna El Amine, Geremie Barmé, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
December 10, 2020
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar
Presenter: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Discussants: Craig Calhoun, Hartmut Rosa, Michael Warner, and Mukulika Banerjee
