HistCon Research Colloquium Archive

May 5 at 1pm PST Bartleby the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action with Dmitri Nikulin, The New School

May 12 at 1pm PST Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation with Sophia Azeb, UC Santa Cruz

 *Not recorded*

May 19 at 1pm PST Mysticism, Practice, and the Materiality of Imagination with Niklaus Largier, UC Berkeley

June 2 at 1pm PST Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism’s Humanitarian Desire with Isaac Blacksin, Texas A&M University

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)

March 3 at 1pm PST Disembodiment: A Conversation from Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova, UC Santa Cruz

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*

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

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

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 Kısakürekwith Alev Çinar, Bilkent University

Spring 2023 Series

May 16 at 2pm PST Anarchafeminism with Chiara Bottici, The New School

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