“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension” Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising […]
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“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape” This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s […]
This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a […]
Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it […]
Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book […]
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: Streetopia and Beyond A Talk by Eric Lyle 3-5 pm Monday, February 27 Humanities 1, 210 What does community control look like? How do […]
Rescheduled for March 15, 2017
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability […]
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a […]
Event Photos: Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between […]
Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from […]
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, […]
Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites […]
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led […]
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the […]
Susan Buck Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia. Cultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: “History […]
We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies. AK Thompson […]
“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar […]
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). […]
Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman […]
Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes […]
Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work […]
Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a […]
