October 18: “The Problem of Conspiracy Theory and the Problem of the Fetish.”
Presenter: Nigel Cambridge, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Discussant: Man Hei (Jacky) Chan, The Graduate Center, CUNY
September 27: “The Newark Method: A Community-Based Model For Violence Reduction.”
Presenter: Alex Vitale, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Discussant: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY
September 13: “Colonial Worldmaking: Race and Humanitarianism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire.”
Presenter: Gabriel Salgado, Trinity College
Discussant: Laura Altinsoy, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Presenter: Yves Winter, McGill University
Discussant: O. L. Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
April 12: “The Politics of Writing: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Iris Young’s Feminist Theory of Structure.”
Presenter: Michaele L. Ferguson, University of Colorado Boulder
Discussant: Aaron Braun, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Presenter: Chris O’Kane, St. John’s University
Discussant: Saira Rafiee, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Presenter: Celina Su, Brooklyn College
Discussants: Mette Christiansen and Michael Villanova, The Graduate Center, CUNY
March 8th: “Policing the Public Sphere”
Presenter: Erin R. Pineda, Smith College
Discussant: Helena Najm, The Graduate Center, CUNY
February 23rd: “King Capital”
Presenter: Corey Robin, Brooklyn College
Discussant: Kamran Moshref, The Graduate Center, CUNY
February 9th: “Utopia: A Colonial Form?”
Presenter: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, Rutgers University-Newark
Discussant: O. L. Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
February 2nd: “Political Theorizing in a Planetary Situation”
Presenter: Susan Buck-Morss, The Graduate Center, CUNY
