For more information about past events, click on the links below. Digital recordings have been included when available.
Stephen Graham, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University (UK)
The Vertical Secession of the Elites
February 18, 2021
Robin D. G. Kelley, History, UCLA
Black Bodies Swinging: An American Postmortem
March 2-4, 2021
Anne Bonds, Geography and Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rethinking White Supremacy in Precarious Times
March 9-10, 2021
Toni Gilpin, Labor Historian, Author, and Activist
Left and Right: Lessons from America's (Largely Forgotten) Radical Industrial Unions
March 16-17, 2021
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Author
The Necessity of Climate Equity
March 25, 2021
James Foley, Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland)
Populism, Britain & the Crisis of the European Union
April 6 & 8, 2021
Donna Murch, History, Rutgers University
Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs
April 14, 2021
Nick Estes, American Studies, University of New Mexico
Decolonization or Extinction
October 6-7, 2020
Arun Kundnani, Author
What is Racial Capitalism?
October 15, 2020
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj
The Resistances and Challenges of the Contemporary Maya
October 22-23, 2020
Stephanie Luce, School of Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York
From Minimum Wage to General Strike?
October 27, 2020
Helen Scott, English, University of Vermont
Capturing ‘the Spirit of Struggle’: Rosa Luxemburg on Literature
October 29, 2020
Simon Balto, History and African American Studies, University of Iowa
A History of Racist Policing in the United States
November 5, 2020
Adam Tooze, History, Columbia University
2020: A World Crisis?
November 12, 2020
Lane Windham, Georgetown University
What Happened with America's Working Class?
November 17-18, 2020
Craig Calhoun, Social Sciences, Arizona State University
Degenerations of Democracy
December 3, 2020