December 13: “The Sensational Landscape of Power: Affect and Feminist Theory.”

Presenters: John McMahon, SUNY Plattsburgh; and Danielle Hanley, Clark University

Discussant: Sophie Dowdy, The Graduate Center, CUNY

December 6: “When an Election Becomes a Resurrection: Multiculturalism, Melancholic Trumpism, and the Right’s Multiracial Politics of Domination.”

Presenter: Cristina Beltran, New York University

Discussant: Antaripa Bharali, The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 11: “Late Fascism and the Accumulation of Capital.”

Presenter: Alberto Toscano, Simon Fraser University

Discussant: Saira Rafiee, The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 1: “Bringing the Fear of Feminism Home: Gender Performance and Security in Private Space.”

Presenter: Helena Najm, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Rose A. Owen, The New School for Social Research

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

May 3: “Does the Left Need New Imaginaries? Hope, the Education of Desire, and the Betrayal of Utopia.”

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

April 5: “Schmidt, Backhaus, Reichelt: The Critique of Political Economy as a Critical Theory of Social Domination”

Presenter: Chris O’Kane, St. John’s University

Discussant: Saira Rafiee, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 22: “Budget Justice”

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