Marina Sitrin opens a discussion on how we might understand many of the struggles that have been taking place around the world over the past few years, with a particular focus on Greece and Argentina, where she has spent time.

A one-day symposium featuring Talal Asad (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Wael Hallaq (Columbia University) about Asad’s essay “Thinking about Tradition, Religion and Politics in Egypt Today”, and a talk by Judith Butler (University of California Berkeley and Columbia University) on “Interpreting Non-Violence.”  

A full day of discussions featuring Banu Bargu (The New School), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), Massimiliano Tomba (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Uday Mehta (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Marnia Lazreg (Hunter College), Uday Metha (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Sanjay Reddy (The New School).

A film screening followed by lecture and discussion with director Judith Wechsler and Susan Buck-Morss (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

A presentation and discussion featuring John E. Drabinski (Black Studies at Amherst College

A public presentation by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, thinker, writer, curator, architect of the House of Taswir and the Taswir Atlas. This event will be followed by a seminar / atlas session on March 18th. First in [Walter Benjamin] mini-series, Thinking Constellations.

Sadia Abbas  (English, Rutgers University) explores responses to the colonial construction of religious subjects in South Asia.

A discussion and celebration of Freedom Time, Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World featuring author Gary Wilder (Anthropology, the Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Philosophy, Columbia University), Judith Surkis (History, Rutgers University),  Fouad Makki (Development Sociology, Cornell University), Nick Nesbitt (French and Italian, Princeton University), moderated by Anthony Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community, CUNY).

A public presentation featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology, Columbia College, Columbia University), “On Combat and Moral Transgression: emerging psychiatric theories of injury, ethics, and responsibility” and Jennifer Terry (Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine), “Attachments to War: militarization and the production of biomedical knowledge in modern America."

A discussion featuring Greg Grandin (History, New York University) in conversation with Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History, Duke University) and Duncan Faherty (English, The Graduate Center, CUNY).

A conversation about the current political context in Turkey, in the wake of popular protests (Gezi and its follow-ups), parliamentary and presidential elections (which have strengthened the hand of the ruling AK Party), and regional politics (particularly the horror of Syria and the rise of ISIS).

A presentation and discussion featuring Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Anthropology, Columbia University) and comments from Ayça Çubukçu (Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science).

A discussion of Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different with author Anthony Alessandrini (English, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY).

A discussion of They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy with authors Marina Sitrin (Visiting Scholar, Center for Place Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center) and Dario Azzelini (Institute for Sociology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria).