Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 Visiting Scholars

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

Shanara Reid-Brinkley, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh

Black Radical Politicking: Anti-Blackness, Youth, and Debating in Civil Society April 18-20, 2017
Deepa Kumar, Media Studies, Rutgers University

Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media & the War on Terror April 6, 2017
Adam Morton, Political Economy, University of Sydney

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis March 28-30, 2017
Jamala Rogers, Organization for Black Struggle

Why Dismantling Racism is Central to Democracy March 14, 2017
Natalie Masuoka, Political Science, Tufts University

Shifting Racial Politics in the 21st Century: How Policy Has Created New Racial Fault Lines March 8-10, 2017
Naika Foroutan, Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Berlin)

Post-migrant Societies: Plural Democracies in Change February 28-March 2, 2017
Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy & Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS February 21-23, 2017
Paul Ortiz, Oral History, University of Florida

“A New Origin Narrative”: African American and Latina/o Histories in an Age of Neoliberal Crisis November 15-17, 2016
Joshua Clover, English, University of California, Davis

The Future of Struggle: The Changing Repertoires of Collective Action November 7-9, 2016
Michael Mann, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

The Macro-Sociology of War November 1-3, 2016
Satnam Virdee, Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Race, Class and the Making of Postcolonial Britain October 13-18, 2016
Adela Licona, Department of English, University of Arizona

Considering the World-Making Possibilities of Wild Refractions October 4-6, 2016
Jordan T. Camp, Watson Institute, Brown University

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter September 29, 2016