For more information about past events, click on the links below. Digital recordings have been included when available.
Jamie Allinson, Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh
Class, History, and Nation: Neil Davidson’s Engagement with Marxism and Nationalism
February 16, 2022
Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson
Organizing for Revolution not Crisis Avoidance
February 23, 2022
Sara Ahmed, Independent feminist scholar and writer
After Complaint
March 2, 2022
Leo Chavez, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Latino Resentimiento and Anti-Immigrant Populism
March 9, 2022
Adaner Usmani, John Clegg, and Christopher Lewis
Challenges in the Study of Mass Incarceration
March 21 and 22, 2022
Amahl Bishara, Anthropology, Tufts University
Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression
March 31, 2022
Julian Go, Sociology, University of Chicago
Militarizing the Police in the US and Britain
April 7, 2022
Anita Sreedhar and Anand Gopal
Vaccine Avoidance and the Crisis of Social Solidarity
April 13, 2022
Deborah Cowen, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
The Logistics of Life and Death: COVID, Climate, Coloniality
April 21, 2022
Gabe Winant, History, University of Chicago
Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Care Economy
April 29, 2022
Oksana Dutchak, Vasyl Cherepanyn & Anastasia Riabchuk
Voices From Ukraine: Analyzing the Russian Invasion and Occupation
June 2, 2022
Ilya Matveev, Natalia Savelyeva & Oleg Zhuravlev
Nationalism, Imperialism & New Cleavages in Russia: Russian Scholars Analyze the Meaning & Consequences of the Invasion of Ukraine
June 29, 2022Leo Chavez, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
The Emotional Toll of Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latino Political Rhetoric
September 15, 2021
Tariq Ali, Anand Gopal, Deepa Kumar, and Arun Kundnani
20 Years of the War on Terror
September 23, 2021
James Scott, Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University
Everything Flows: In Praise of Floods
September 28, 2021
Eileen Boris, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Home as a Workplace
October 5 and 7, 2021
Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute
Why Freedom Requires Keeping Us Free From the Market
October 14, 2021
John Bellamy Foster
Marxism, Ecology and the Climate Crisis
October 26, 2021
David Harvey, Costas Lapavitsas
After Neoliberalism? Covid, Crisis and the Future of Capitalism
November 2, 2021
Daniel Chavez, Catarina Principe, Yanis Stavrakakis
Is the (Left) Populist Moment Over?
November 18, 2021