Fall 2021-Spring 2022 VSP

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, 2022
Leo 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