The goal of Political Concepts is to serve as a platform for revising, inventing, and experimenting with concepts while exploring the political dimension of their use and dissemination. Participants operate under the assumption that our era urgently needs a revised political lexicon that would help us better understand the world in which we live and act, and that the humanities at large can and should contribute toward such a revision.

The Committee on Globalization and social change is pleased to host the 2018 gathering of Political Concepts. Since 2010, along parallel lines, this group has spent successive years critically reconsidering and reworking foundational concepts in an effort to more adequately grasp the global political present and to envision alternative political futures.

A two-day symposium featuring Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University), Brooke Holmes (Princeton University), Sadia Abbas (Rutgers University), Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo (Rutgers University), Jesús R. Velasco (Columbia University), Andreas Kalyvas (The New School), Banu Bargu (University of California, Santa Cruz), Seloua Luste Boulbina (Denis Diderot University), Lydia Liu (Columbia University), and Ato Quayson (New York University).

Presented with Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon with support from the Office of the Provost, Graduate Center, CUNY.