Year: 2023
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María Puig de la Bellacasa – Worlding Soils Talk with University of Luxembourg and LUCA
Professor María Puig de la Bellacasa will give talk “Worlding Soils” as part of the Fall 2023 Lecture Series organised by Marija Marić, David Peleman, and Cesar Reyes Nájera at the Master in Architecture (University of Luxembourg) and hosted by luca – Luxembourg Centre for Architecture and Cultures of Assembly. Other lecturers in the series…
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Massimiliano Tomba – Questioning the PresentTalk with The Center for Global Culture and Communication (Northwestern University) & The Center for Transcultural Studies
The Center for Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & The Center for Transcultural Studies jointly present “Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum on Insurgent Universality: An alternative legacy of modernity (Oxford University Press, 2019)” on Friday, December 8, 2023 from 10 am to 12 pm CST. Respondents to the book include John Brenkman (Comparative Literature and English, CUNY Graduate Center and…
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Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended Talk
HistCon Professor Robert Nichols will give talk “The Indian Wars Have Never Ended” on November 29 as part of the Fall 2023 Center for Cultural Studies’ colloquia series. Register here.
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Critical Theory Roundtable Comes to UC Santa Cruz
Next month the 30th annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place on UC Santa Cruz’s campus in Humanities 2 Room 259 hosted by HistCon professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba. The events will take place on November 3rd & 4th. Find the program below. The Critical Theory Roundtable is a small, high caliber conference that…
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Profs. Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba to Join the Editorial Board of Political Theory
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has announced History of Consciousness professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba will join scholar Kevin Olson on the editorial board of the historic Political Theory journal in January of next year. Political Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published bi-monthly, and serves as the leading forum for the development and exchange of political ideas.…
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History of Consciousness Welcomes New Faculty
The History of Consciousness department is delighted to announce we have three new faculty members joining the department in the academic year 2023-2024! Information about their academic foci and recent publications are below. Robert Nichols Robert Nichols is an expert in contemporary social and political philosophy—especially Critical Theory; the history of social and political thought—especially pertaining…
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Prof. Isaac Julien Awarded Prize for Publication
About the AwardHistory of Consciousness Professor Isaac Julien’s recent publication has been awarded the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards recognise individuals or groups of individuals who, in the opinion of the Judges, have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the literature of or concerning the art and practice…
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Curating the Moving Image from Prof. Mark Nash
In Curating the Moving Image, influential curator and theorist Mark Nash draws on his work at Documenta11, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere to explore the possibilities of contemporary curation. Constructing this richly illustrated book as a curatorial project in and of itself, Nash outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective…
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Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader from Mumia Abu-Jamal
History of Consciousness graduate student Mumia Abu-Jamal’s upcoming publication Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader to be published March 19 2024. About the publication: Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black. “Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the…
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HistCon Alumnus Isaac Blacksin Interviewed by THI
History of Consciousness alumnus student Isaac Blacksin discusses his research with The Humanities Institute. Read the full profile here.
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Reproduction of Possibility: A Colloquium on Black Critical Thought
History of Consciousness graduate student Daniel Butler, alumni Colin Drumm, and incoming Post-Doctoral Scholar Taija McDougall will be presenting in the upcoming Reproduction of Possibility: A Colloquium on Black Critical Thought. The colloquium will take place over over two multi-day periods: April 27-29 & May 4-6. April’s series will be a set of hybrid events,…
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Prof. Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality: Continuing the Debate Virtual Discussion
Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity, is considered one of the most important recent contributions to political philosophy. Its main argument is that within traditions of subaltern resistance and insurgency, a different form of universality emerges – radical, agonistic, egalitarian – that represents the alternative ‘subterranean’ current of modernity. This resonates with both…