BOOK TALK | SECULARISM AS MISDIRECTION: CRITICAL THOUGHT FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Nivedita Menon, Professor at Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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- 15 November, 2023, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building
Nivedita Menon, Professor at Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, is the author of Seeing like a Feminist (2012). Her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South is forthcoming in 2023 (Permanent Black) and 2024 (Duke University Press). Apart from research papers in Indian and international journals, her previous books […]
Nivedita Menon, Professor at Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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- 14 November, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Lecture Topic and Details The BJP returned to power in 2019 with the intention of completing its agenda for the establishment of Hindu Rashtra in India. High on the list of targets for cleansing and reshaping was the Bombay film industry (which the media refers to as Bollywood). In 2020, this project was galvanised by […]
GEHALT THEORY: BENJAMIN ON GOETHE
Kevin McLaughlin, Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, Brown University
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- 24 October, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Kevin McLaughlin’s new book, The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin’s Critical Program (Fordham University Press, 2023), traces the development of a theory of literature and a method of criticism in Benjamin’s early interpretations of a nexus formed by Hölderlin, the German romantics, and Goethe. McLaughlin’s lecture will focus on Benjamin’s thesis of what he calls Goethe’s […]
UKRAINE’S STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
Hanna Perekhoda (University of Lausanne) and Ilya Matveev (UC Berkeley), with moderator Blanca Missé (San Francisco State University)
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- 07 September, 2023, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
September 13, 2023 / 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Hanna Perekhoda and Ilya Matveev Blanca Missé, Moderator and Respondent In a brazen act of imperialist aggression, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has carried out indiscriminate killing of civilians, kidnapping of […]
A founding member of the Abounaddara Syrian Filmmaker Collective, with moderators Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology) and Anneka Lenssen (Art History)
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- 03 May, 2023, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- The Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Image credits: Stills from Fi al-thawra, During Revolution (Abounaddara 2019) Since the birth of photography, individuals have protected their image in the name of property rights or the right to privacy. But these rights don’t protect the world’s most vulnerable citizens whose indignity is exhibited on the screens of the world in the name of […]
SEMINAR ON ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS, MELANIE SMITH, AND THEIR ARTISTIC CONTEMPORARIES IN MEXICO
Robin Greeley, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art History, University of Connecticut
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- 19 April, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- 3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
The seminar will concentrate on the work of Abraham Cruzvillegas and Melanie Smith but will also look briefly at others of the 1990s generation, including Francis Alÿs; Pedro Reyes; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Teresa Margolles.
RED SQUARE IMPOSSIBLE PINK: NEOLIBERALISM AND PERCEPTION IN THE ART OF MELANIE SMITH
Robin Greeley, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art History, University of Connecticut
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- 18 April, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Arts Research Center, D23 Hearst Field Annex
Melanie Smith’s 1989 move from the bleakness of Thatcher’s England to Mexico’s drama-filled neoliberal upheavals has given her singular insight into the perceptual conditions governing today’s erosion of material encounters. Tracing the aesthetic collision between the austere language of the monochrome and, as she puts it, the “baroque, excessive, saturated culture” of Mexico’s contemporary reality, Smith proposes a visual-temporal cognitive critique of Mexico’s reckless embrace of neoliberalism.
SLAVIC COLLOQUIUM: POLITICAL MUTATIONS IN PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, with Alexei Yurchak (moderator), Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
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- 17 April, 2023, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began over a year ago. The war has since killed tens of thousands, forced many more to flee, and reduced entire cities in Ukraine to rubble. While there is a sense that the war has turned into a watershed moment in post-Cold War history, its full consequences and global significance […]
Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Yale University
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- 06 April, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
“Colonial domesticity” is a way to express the centrality of forms of domesticity, such as family, kinship, and schooling, to the social reproduction of colonialism and racial capitalism. Colonial and capitalist social relations are materially reproduced through feminized care work, household, and embodied labor. While homes and households are primary sites for this invisible and often unwaged labor that reproduces human being, this reproduction also takes place in schools, factories, on assembly lines, in hospitals and prisons and in other institutions, at both intimate and global scales.
RELATIONS OF WATER: COLONIAL DISPOSSESSION AND LIVING OTHERWISE IN A WORLD ON FIRE
Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
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- 13 March, 2023, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- 554 Social Sciences Building
This talk is drawn from Goldstein’s current book manuscript, The Colonial Present: Histories of Dispossession beyond Settlement. It considers the colonial-capitalist politics of water for Indigenous peoples and other racialized peoples during the present moment of climate catastrophe. The juridical production of water in the US Southwest as a “natural resource” to be quantified and managed, and […]
INAUGURAL CICI SYMPOSIUM | BORDERS AND CROSSINGS: CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND TECHNIQUES OF MIGRATION
The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), which houses The Program in Critical Theory, is delighted to announce our inaugural symposium: Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration. The event will take place March 10-11, 2023, at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley. Borders are marked by fences and walls, but also by technologies, laws, […]
SEMINAR | BLACK STUDIES IN/FROM THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, TOWARDS A GLOBAL FRAME
Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg; ICCTP Visiting Scholar
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- 06 March, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- 3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
In a chapter entitled “Fanonian Futures,” David Scott points to the difference between the (Frantz) Fanon text that has resonated the most in the Northern Hemisphere — Black Skin, White Masks — and that which seemed most widely read in the South — The Wretched of the Earth, most especially “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness.” […]
Robert J.C. Young, Silver Professor of English, New York University
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- 03 March, 2023, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- 370 Dwinelle Hall, Level G
The UC Berkeley Rhetoric 2022-23 Colloquium Series Presents: Fanon’s Psychoanalysis Open to all Berkeley students and faculty Add to Google calendar Of all the many aspects of the life and work of Frantz Fanon, his relation to psychoanalysis has remained amongst the most enigmatic and debated—repeatedly criticised or tidied up into more recognizable forms. In […]
1902/2012 SOUTH AFRICA & TRANSLATING BLACKNESS
Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg
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- 27 February, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
“1902/2012” traces the emergence of Blackness as an ontological category in South Africa. It offers an analysis of early twentieth century Black writing in order to make claims about what Blackness came to mean at the dawn of the last century. Victoria Collis-Buthelezi is director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class at […]
BODIES AS TERRITORIES: REVISITING THE COLONIALITY OF GENDER
Leticia Sabsay, Associate Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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- 21 February, 2023, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Social Sciences Building Room 602, UC Berkeley
Response by Mel Y. Chen, UC Berkeley In this talk I reconsider the “coloniality of gender” to explore some feminist mobilizations of bodies as territories in contemporary Latin America. I start by revisiting Latin American decolonial, non-binary approaches that highlight the coloniality of knowledge that informs medical and racist constructions of gender. Taking as a […]
Felwine Sarr (Duke University), Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg).
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- 10 February, 2023, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Online
Online Zoom event; Register here Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a conversation with Felwine Sarr (Duke University), Mamadou Diouf […]
CONVERSATION ON UNDOING APARTHEID
Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape), Su-Ming Khoo (University of Galway), Heidi Grunebaum (University of the Western Cape), Garth Stevens (University of the Witwatersrand)
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- 03 February, 2023, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Online Zoom event; Register here 10 AM PST / 8 PM SAST / 6 PM GMT Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for a virtual event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. Undoing Apartheid, a conversation with the author Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape), Su-Ming Khoo (University […]
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