Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 Visiting Scholars

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

Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College

Contemporary Latino Politics from DREAMers to Voters April 21-23, 2015
Sam Gindin, York University

Politics with Sober Senses: Conditions for Labor Renewal April 14-16, 2015
Brittney Cooper, Rutgers, Women’s and Gender Studies

Racial Justice and the Pleasures of Resistance: Toward New Theory, Genealogies, and Methods March 10-11, 2015
Bill Gallegos, Communities for a Better Environment

The Strategic Role of Oppressed Communities of Color: Lessons from the Environmental Justice Movement February 24-26, 2015
Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute of Globalization and Social Movements

Russia and the Global Crisis February 19, 2015
Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation

Capitalism, Post-Capitalism and Transition Strategies towards a Sustainable and Socially Just P2P Society February 10-12, 2015
Alain Badiou, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Philosophy & the Contemporary World December 9-11, 2014
Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University

The Schools We Need: The Pursuit of Equity and Justice in American Education October 29-30, 2014
Barbara Ehrenreich, Havens Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship

Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation between Barbara Ehrenreich and Matt Rothschild October 23, 2014
Jon Shelton, Democracy and Justice Studies, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

“Against the Public”: Teachers, Unions, and the Decline of Labor-Liberalism in the 1970s October 14-16, 2014
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, History, Davidson College

Protesters, Imageries of Mass Murder, and the Remaking of Memory in West Germany and the United States? October 9, 2014
Pete Ramand, Radical Independence Campaign

After the Scottish Independence Referendum: Nationalism, Class, & the Future of Scotland & Britain October 2, 2014
Peter Hurst

Social Injustice in the Global Food Chain: Labor Rights & Working Conditions in Agriculture September 7-10, 2014