Fall 2012 & Spring 2013 Visiting Scholars

For more information about past events, click on the links below. Digital recordings have been included when available.

Karen Fields, Co-author of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Racecraft: An Elemental Form of American Life October 8-10, 2013
Eduardo Galeano, Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship

“Children of the Days” May 9, 2013
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, Law School, Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology

Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race April 23-24, 2013
Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics

What Then Must We Do? April 16-17, 2013
Gary Segura, Political Science, Stanford University

Dimensions of Disadvantage: News from the Front in both the Class and Culture Wars April 9-11, 2013
Rick Fantasia, Department of Sociology, Smith College

At Work with Bourdieu March 19-21, 2013
Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education

Urban Education, Neoliberal Responses to Crisis, and Their Contradictions March 5-7, 2013
Heather Ann Thompson, Department of History, Temple University

Mass Incarceration in America February 19-21, 2013
Tommie Shelby, Harvard University, Philosophy and African & African American Studies

Injustice, Dissent & the Dark Ghetto November 28-30, 2012
Miko Peled

The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine October 25, 2012
Thavolia Glymph, History and African & African American Studies, Duke University

Rosa’s War: Enslaved Women & the Battle for Freedom & Democracy in the Civil War October 16-18, 2012
Karl Schlögel, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder

The Transformation of Cultural Spaces September 24-26, 2012
Joy James, Williams College, Political Science

Cyborgs & Criminals in the Features of Democracy September 19-20, 2012