neil wrote a new post, 2/29 discussion with Prabhat Patnaik, on the site GC...
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday February 29, 2012 at 4:00pm, Room 5109. We will meet with Prabhat Patnaik to discuss economic recession and the world food crisis. All are welcome to attend. For a...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 3/9 discussion on Nasser Hussain, on the site Law,...
Discussion of selected readings by Nasser Hussain “Towards a Jurisprudence of Emergency,” Law and Critique 10 (1999): 93-115. Discussant: Mariana Assis, doctoral student, political science, The New […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, notes from 3/9 seminar, on the site Law, Justice, and...
Opening remarks by Mariana Assis: I would like to start by suggesting a collective exercise of revisiting the objectives and questions initially raised by this seminar, so they remain on the background...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 3/23 discussion on Muneer Ahmad, on the site Law,...
Discussion of selected readings by Muneer Ahmad “Resisting Guantánamo: Rights at the Brink of Dehumanization,” Northwestern University Law Review 103.4 (2009): 1683-1763. Discussant: Ximena García […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 3/19 special event, on the site Law, Justice, and...
“Telling Histories”: a discussion between Laurent Dubois, Greg Grandin, and Gary Wilder While Haiti’s complex and “cursed” past was often used by journalists to explain its recent and tragic upheaval,...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 10/25 notes on meeting with Prabhat Patnaik, on the...
Prabhat Patnaik’s opening remarks: What framework is needed to understand land acquisition in India? In Marx’s analysis of older, pre-capitalist communities, land acquisition involved the dispossession...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 3/13 reading session on the Hall-Jessop debate, on the...
Our next session with feature readings by Stuart Hall, Bob Jessop, and Philip Abrams. Tuesday, March 13 @ 6:30pm at Slattery’s. The readings are: Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show,” Marxism...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, Left Forum panel on Saturday 3/17 , on the site GC...
Imperialism and the Neoliberal State in the Middle East and South Asia States in the Middle East and South Asia embrace international finance capital even as they remain under the threat of foreign […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 3/27 reading session on Mao, on the site GC Marxist...
Comrades, Here are the details for our reading session on Mao: Tuesday, March 27, 6:30pm @ Slattery’s Bar (8 East 36th st) We will be reading Mao’s five essays on philosophy: “On Practice”, “On […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, notes from 2/3 seminar, on the site Law, Justice, and...
Opening remarks by Amiel Melnick: In tracing out links between what have been understood as different forms of insurance in the United States—insurance taken out on slaves, and life insurance—Michael […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 4/20 seminar with Elizabeth Povinelli, on the site...
Elizabeth Povinelli, “The Child in the Broom Closet” in Economies of Abandonment Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Discussant: Jay Blair, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 4/24 reading session on C.L.R. James, on the site GC...
Our next meeting will be……….. C.L.R. James Tuesday April 24th @ 6:30pm Room 5109 (in the Graduate Center) readings: 1. Cedric Robinson, “C.L.R. James and the Black Radical Tradition” in Black […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, notes from 4/20 seminar, on the site Law, Justice, and...
Opening remarks by Jay Blair: Questions for discussion: What are the material conditions of abandonment? Do you see anticolonial, new social movements exhausting late liberalism and nonliberal...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation, on...
The LJGPF seminar presents… Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation May 3 & 4 featuring new papers by Amiel Melnick Shea McManus Anjuli Raza Kolb Jini Kim Watson Kareem Rabie Jeremy […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 5/15 discussion with Kate Crehan, on the site GC...
Our next meeting will focus on the work of Antonio Gramsci, with special guest Kate Crehan. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 6:30pm Room 5109 the readings are: Gramsci, “Some Aspects of Southern Question”...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 10/1 first meeting of semester!, on the site GC...
Please join us for the first meeting of the year as we plan out readings/speakers/themes. There will be no readings for this session but please bring ideas for things you would like to discuss this […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 11/20 discussion with Don Robotham, on the site GC...
Our upcoming meeting with Don Robotham will address the tension of rights/liberal democracy and political-economic transformation. What is the relationship between a long-term goal of transformation...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 12/4 reading session on democracy and the Left, on the...
Tuesday 12/4 @ 6:00pm location: Globalization room (5109) at the CUNY Graduate Center S’Bu Zikode, “The Shackdwellers Movement of Durban” Massimo De Angelis, “Enclosures, Commons, and the […]
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 2/14 discussion with Mehmet Tabak, on the site GC...
Our next session will be with Prof. Mehmet Tabak from NYU. We will be reading chapters from his new book Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx’s Philosophy. Thursday 2/14 at 6pm in the Globalization Room...
View Articleneil wrote a new post, 10/23 reading session on Badiou and Prashad, on the...
next meeting: Tuesday 10/23 from 4:30 – 6:30 in Rm 5109 (globalization room) We will be reading 1. Alain Badiou’s Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings Intro (read) Chapter 1: Capitalism […]
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