HistCon Speaker Series Archive
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Fall 2022 Series: Bonauiti, Vardoulakis, Scott, Sorace
Winter 2023 Series: Wilder, Heatherton, Vasiliou
Spring 2023 Series: McDougall, Tapia, Feldman, Çinar, Bottici
Winter 2024 Series: Tanaka, Panagia, Jaeggi
Spring 2024 Series: Davis, Parekh, Kelley, Ranasinghe
Fall 2024 Series: Barale, Weinberg
Winter 2025 Series: Zimmer, Bellofiore & Vertova
Winter 2025 Series
January 27 at 1pm PST From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendance, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics with Dan Zimmer, Stanford University
February 10 at 1pm PST Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration with Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists)
Fall 2024 Series
October 28 at 1pm PST Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale, University of Milan
November 18th at 1pm Higher Ed and the Algorithmic Gaze with Lindsay Weinberg, Purdue University
*Not recorded*
Spring 2024 Series
April 15 at 12pm PST Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas with Benjamin Davis, Saint Louis University
April 22 at 12pm PST Black Enlightenment with Surya Parekh, Binghamton University
April 29 at 12pm PST Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life with Robin D.G. Kelley, UC Los Angeles
May 6 at 12pm PST Heidegger, Christian Eschatology & the Temporality of Being with Prashan Ranasinghe, University of Ottawa
Winter 2024 Series
January 22 at 2pm PST What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka, UC San Diego
February 12 at 11:30am PST Political Theory, Democracy, and the Challenges of Algorithmic Governance with Davide Panagia, UC Los Angeles
March 18 at 2pm PST Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi, Humboldt University of Berlin
Spring 2023 Series
April 4 at 2pm PST Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall, UC Irvine
April 11 at 2pm PST Social Diversity and the Future of Democracy with Luis Tapia Mealla, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés & Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
April 25 at 2pm PST The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg, Felski, and Bottomless Critique with Karen Feldman, UC Berkeley
May 2 at 2pm PST The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek with Alev Çinar, Bilkent University
May 16 at 2pm PST Anarchafeminism with Chiara Bottici, The New School
Winter 2023 Series
January 24th at 2pm Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder, City University of New York, in conversation with James Martel, San Francisco State University
See excerpts from Concrete Utopianism here as discussed in the talk
February 21st at 2pm Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton, Trinity College
March 7 at 2pm Queer pleasure, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou, UC Berkeley
Fall 2022 Series
October 12th at 2pm Domesticity and Beyond with Gianluca Bonaiuti, University of Florence
*Not recorded*
October 19th at 2pm Materialism and Instrumentality with Dimitris Vardoulakis, Western Sydney University
October 25th at 12pm The Professor of Desire: Charles Fournier's Sexual Utopia with Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
November 2nd at 2pm Steppe Immunity with Christian Sorace, Colorado College
