Wednesday, February 28 – Friday, March 1, 2024 The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Not since the height of the Second World War and the Cold War have…
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This one day conference will examine the ambiguous concept of addiction and discuss the questions that addiction’s prevalence raises about individual freedom, consumerism,…
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Thursday, May 4, 2023 Robertson Gymnasium 1000A A symposium on the occasion of the publication of Clayton Crockett’s Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). The…
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Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race and Class Nancy Fraser’s 2022 Benjamin lectures are inspired by a striking claim made by W.E.B. Du Bois…
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Monday, June 6, 2022 at 3PM. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This seminar with Professor Santner will focus on themes from his most recent book, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a…
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Friday, June 3, 3:00PM. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This seminar discussion will treat central themes from Professor Wolfson’s recently completed manuscript on the writing and thought of Susan Taubes, focusing specifically…
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Monday, May 16, 2022 3:00-5:00PM Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Beginning from Jacques Derrida’s definition of the fetish as a ‘bad substitute,” Hammerschlag will moderate a seminar discussion in which she argues…
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Friday, May 13, 2022 Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This one day conference will take up themes and questions at play within and surrounding John Lardas Modern’s recent book Neuromatic: or, A…
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 3:30 PM Robertson Gym 1000A In scientific laboratories around the world ecstatic acts of attention are taking place. And in each instance, regardless of what, exactly,…
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Friday, April 29th, 2022 at 3PM Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The medieval Mediterranean world saw widespread agreement that usury—the practice of lending money at interest, or pricing money in terms of…
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Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, will talk about Planetary Blues, American Environments and Slow Hope for the Future. He will be introduced…
read morewith Amna Akbar, Silke van Dyk, Manon Garcia and Romin Khan “In order to preserve or even expand the welfare state, migration must be stopped.” Claims like these accompanied the…
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The UNESCO Chair “Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development” based at the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change organises a number of training courses (in cooperation with the Global Network…
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Is there still a need for a comprehensive social theory today that clarifies the interrelation and interaction of the various social spheres? In her influential 1994 essay “Gender as Seriality,”…
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Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 3:30 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big…
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A China plans to send its first manned mission to Mars by 2033, and eventually establish a permanent colony on the…
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with Ruth Mostern, Pittsburgh University The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History, Online lecture More information here
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We are thrilled to take part in a large international event taking place in Venice and online on October 11-16, 2021: the Anthropocene Campus Venice (ACV), a one-week forum with…
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From October 5 to 7, 2021, as part of the Global Forum of the international initiative #democratizingwork we discussed the topics of “democratization”, “decommodification” and “decarbonization” of work in more…
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Venice, 10 June 2021 Call for expressions of interest for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’Foscari University of Venice is seeking…
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