Reproductive Futurism

Loretta J. Ross, Smith College

via Zoom

January 21st

Purchasing Race: Assisted Reproduction in Asian America

Daisy Deomampo, Fordham University

via Zoom

February 11th

Reproductive Injustice and Reproductive Justice in Native America

Briana Theobald, University of Rochester

Hybrid

March 4

Histories of Eugenic Sterilization through A Reproductive Justice Lens

Natalie Lira, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

via Zoom

April 22

via Zoom

February 12  

via Zoom

March 5

via Zoom

March 12

via Zoom

March 19

via Zoom

April 30

Friday, October 18th

Grids of Sensibility, in Governance and the Law

Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History at The New School, New York

Friday, October 19th

Dr. Karen Till

Maynooth  University, Ireland

Lecture Title: "Archiving Bodies with Place: Re-inhabiting Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in These Rooms (2016)" 

Please click the link to view the lecture

Dr. Kimberly Christen

Washington State University

Lecture Title: "Sovereignty in Practice: Digital Archives and Technologies of Protest"

Please click the link to view the lecture

Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

The University of Texas at Austin

Lecture Title: "Silencing the Past: On Archives, Imperial Historiographies, and Forgotten Epistemologies"

Dr. Michelle Caswell

UCLA

Lecture Title: "Past Imperfect: Imagining Our Way Out of Annihilation in Archives”

Dr. Elizabeth Shove, Friday October 14th, 2016, W.T. Young Library Auditorium. Please click the link to see the lecture. 

"Infrastructures and Practices" - Elizabeth Shove is professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and co-director of the DEMAND research centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand). She has written about consumption and everyday life (Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience, 2003) and about social practice (The Dynamics of Social Practice, 2007) and is currently interested in bringing various strands of social theory to bear on issues of energy demand and mobility.

Dr. Lori Watson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego.

Lecture title: "Sex Equality and Public Reason." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower.

Dr. Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of the Zolburg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School for Social Research.

Lecture title: "What Does Innocence Have to Do With Justice?"

Location: Young Library Auditorium, William T. Young Library.

Dr. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.

Lecture title: "Capitalism vs Democracy: Facing/Solving the Contradiction." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: Young Library Auditorium, William T. Young Library.

Dr. Drucilla Cornell, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University.

Lecture Title: "Negotiations and the Claims of Justice".

Location: President's Room, Singletary Center.

Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, Friday, October 2nd, 3:30 p.m., Young Library Auditorium. Please click the link to see his lecture.

"Political Violence and Political Justice: A Critique of Criminal Justice as Accountability." Dr. Mahmood Mamdani is a distinguished public intellectual who has made important scholarly contributions to colonial and post-colonial theory, African politics, and a range of critical contemporary issues such as the "war on terror" and the roots of genocide. Dr. Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University. He maintains his involvement with the intellectualand political life of his native Uganda as Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) at Makerere University, in Kampala. Dr. Mamdani has written a number of important books that address the intersection between culture, identity, power, and politics, including Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and The Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996), When Victims become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (2001), Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (2005), and Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2010).

Dr. Nina Glick Schiller, Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute, University of Manchester. 

Lecture Title: “Perspectives On Nations Unbound: The Transnational Paradigm in the Current Conjecture” Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

Professor Otto Santa Ana, UCLA. 

Lecture Title: "The Cowboy and the Goddess: News Myth-making about Immigrants” Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: President's Room, Singletary Center for the Arts.

February 27

Dr. Floya Anthias, University of East London.

Lecture Title: "Transnational Mobilities and Translocational Belongings: Reflecting on Identities and Inequalities" Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

April 3

Dr. William Nericcio,  English and Comparative Literature & Chicano/a Studies, San Diego State University.

Lecture Title: "Chicanosmosis and the Transnational Imaginary (Imaginary): 21st Century Mextasy in and Beyond the Ivory Tower" Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: President's Room, Singletary Center for the Arts. 

Dr. Margaret Archer, Friday, December 12, 4 pm., President's Room, Singletary Center for the Arts: Lecture. Please click the link to view the lecture.

“The Relational Subject versus the Plural Subject: We Believe, Plan and Want, but Who or What are We?” Dr. Archer is a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Archer was a professor of Sociology at Warwick University where she developed her 'Morphogenetic Approach' to social theory. She heads the project at EPFL 'From Modernity to Morphogenesis'. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology. She is a founding member of both the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and is a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach.

Dr. Peter Temin, Department of Economics and History, MIT. 

Lecture Title: "Lessons of the Great Depression." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

Dr. Greta Krippner, Sociology, University of Michigan.

Lecture Title: "The Crisis in Market Regulation." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

February 28

Dr. Cormac O'Grada, Economics, University College Dublin School of Economics

Lecture Title: "The Nature of Famines." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

April 4

Dr. Alex Callinicos, European Studies, King's College London. 

Lecture Title: "Bonfires of Illusions: the Twin Crises of the Liberal World." Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower. 

Dr. Simon Critchley, November 14^th at 4:00 p.m., Patterson Office Tower 18^th Floor. "The Hamlet Doctrine" Please click the link to view the lecture.

Dr. Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He held the position of chair in philosophy at the New School from 2008–2011. He is particularly interested in modern Continental philosophy, but has written on a variety of themes such as ethical and political theory, the relation between philosophy and poetry, and the nature of humor. Dr. Critchley’s books include Faith of the Faithless (2012), Impossible Objects (2011), How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (2010), The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009), Infinitely Demanding (2007), Things Merely Are (2005), On Humour (2002), and Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001). Dr. Critchley also moderates “The Stone,” an opinion series in The New York Times that features the writing of contemporary philosophers which ranges in topic from art, war, popular culture, and more.

Dr. Derek Gregory, Geography, University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Lecture Title: "Gabriel's War: Cartography, Corpography, and Modern War" Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: Lexmark Room, Main Building

Neil Brenner, Urban Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Lecture Title: "The Urban Age in Question"

Location: Lexmark Room, Main Building

February 22

Tom Conley, Departments of Romance Languages and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard

Lecture Title: "Table, Map and Text: Writing in France Circa 1600"     Please click the link to view the lecture.

Location: Lexmark Room, Main Building

Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture, University of California Santa Barbara

Lecture Title: "A Geography of Small Spaces"

Location: Lexmark Room, Main Building

Jean Comaroff, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.





Date:            Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Event:           Working lunch

Time:            Noon-2:00pm

Place:           245 Patterson Office Tower







Date:            Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Event:           Lecture

Title:             "Theory from the South: Or, How Europe is Evolving Toward Africa."

Time:            4:00pm -6:00pm

Place:           West End Room 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower



Reception from 6:00pm to 7:30pm at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center.







 

Marianne Noble, Literature, American University

Title: "The Limits of Empathy and The Promise of Sex in Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe" Please click the links to view the lecture. Part One. Part Two.

February 5 

Eithne Luibhéid, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona

"Pregnant Migrants Aim for Ireland": Nationalist Sexuality, Transnational Migration, and Neoliberal Inequalities"

February 26 

Durba Ghosh, History, Cornell University

Title: "Colonial Cosmopolitans: 'Criminals' and Other Low-Lifes in Calcutta in the 18th Century"



 

March 26

Maxine Eichner, Law/Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Title: "The Supportive State: Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals"



 

April 23 

The Committee on Social Theory welcomes our Fall 2009 Distinguished Author.

Nancy Armstrong is the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke University.

Friday:  November 6, 2009

Title:     "A Gothic History of the British Novel"

Time:    2:00pm-4:00pm

Place:   West End Board Room 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower

Reception following from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Nancy Armstrong is the author of four highly acclaimed books:

1. How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism 1719-1900. Columbia University Press, 2005.
2. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Harvard University Press, 1999.
3. (with Leonard Tennenhouse) The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. University of California Press, 1992.
4. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.

Richard Wilk, Anthropology & Gender Studies, Indiana University.

Lecture Title: "The Morality of Drinking Bottled Water"

Susan Bordo, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky.

 

Lecture Title: "Beyond 'Eating Disorders': Why We Need to Re-think Everything We Thought We Knew"

Joshua Gamson, Sociology, University of San Francisco.

Lecture Title: "Celebrity Culture Old and New"



 

Deborah Gewertz and Frederick K Errington, Anthropology, Amherst College & Trinity College.

 

Lecture Title: "One Supersize Does Not Fit All: Lamb Flap Versus Big Mac in the Politics of Personal Consumption"

Matthew Hilton, History, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Lecture Title: "Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalisation"

 

The Committee on Social Theory Welcomes our Fall 2008 Distinguished Visiting Author Elizabeth Povinelli, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Friday:  November 14, 2008

Title:  "Economies of Abandonment"

Time:  2:00pm-4:00pm

Place:  West End Board Room 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower

Reception following from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Elizabeth Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University where she has also served as Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture and is currently Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.  Her research and writing have focused on social belonging and late liberalism.

The Committee on Social Theory welcomes College of Arts and Sciences Dean 's Visiting Professor Wendy Larner

Wendy Larner is a Professor of Human Geography and Sociology at the University of Bristol, Great Britain.  Her research is situated in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization, governance and gender, linking the insights of critical social theory with a strong commitment to empirical research. She has a long standing interest in theorizing neo-liberalism and 'post-welfarist' governance, including empirical research on economic and social policies, industry restructuring, and community development.

Title: " Globalization, the 'New Economy' and Working Women:  Theorizing from the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry"

Date:  Friday, September 26th, 2008

Time:  4:00pm-5:15pm

Place:  West End Room 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower

Reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, with support from the Departments of Anthropology, Gender and Women's Studies, Geography, and Sociology.

Lecture Title: "Conservative and Progressive Geopolitics"

Lecture Title: "Land, Territory and Property in War: Examples from the Caucasus and the Middle East"

Lecture Title: "Democracy *Presidentialism* War"

This lecture is a presentation from Dana Nelson's book, Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People, University of Minnesota Press, September 2008.

Marilyn Young, History, New York University.

Lecture Title:"Lost in the Desert"

 

Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor from School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Title:  "Cover-up: French Gender Equality and the Islamic Headscarf"

Time:  4:00pm-5:30pm

Place:  West End Room 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower

Reception following from 5:30pm to 7:15pm at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Friday, November 9, 2007

Title:  "Academic Freedom in Danger, or Anti-Intellectualism in American life revisited"

Time:  2:00pm-3:30pm

Place:  West End Room 18th floor, Patterson Office Tower

Joan Scott is known internationally for writings that theorize gender as an analytic category. She is a leading figure in the emerging field of critical history. Her ground-breaking work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history, and has contributed to a transformation of the field of intellectual history. Scott's recent books focus on gender and democratic politics. They include Gender and the Politics of History (1988), Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), and  Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005).  Princeton University Press has published "The Politics of the Veil."

Christian Joppke, Political Science, American University of Paris.

Lecture Title: “Immigration and Citizenship:  Recent Trends in Theory and Policy"

 

Jon Goss, Geography, University of Hawaii.

Lecture Title: “Deathly Attraction(s): The Lure of Dark Tourism and Tourist Objects”



 

Jonathan Fox, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Lecture Title: “Exit, Then Voice: Emerging Mexican Migrant Civil Society”



 

Walter Benn Michaels, professor of English and department head at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will deliver two lectures:

Thursday, 4:00pm-5:30pm

"Model Minorities: The Function of Race in American Literary Studies"

Friday, 2:00pm-3:30pm

"The Death of a Beautiful Woman: Memento and the Idea of Aesthetic Form"

Dr. Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University.

Lecture Title: " Anger and Memory: The Moral Witness and the Two World Wars"

 

William Miller, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School.

Lecture Title: "Eye for An Eye" 

 

Dr. Mary Floyd-Wilson, Associate Professor of English, University of North Carolina.

Lecture Title: "Macbeth's English Epicures and Scottish Witches" 

 

Dr. Mark Jarzombek, Director of the Program in History/Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art Professor of the History of Architecture, MIT.

Lecture Title: "Ideology of 'Experience': The Phenomenological Turn in Architecture in the 1970s" 

 

Dr. John Hartigan Jr, professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

Christopher Lane, English Northwestern University.