Fall 2020 Schedule

Friday, September 18
Luciana Parisi, Literature
Recursive Colonialism and Speculative Computation
Interview and recording

Friday, September 25
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, African & African American Studies
Tactility and the Texture of Racial Capitalism
Interview and recording

Friday, October 2
Jessica Namakkal, International Comparative Studies
Unsettling Utopia: Spiritual Settlement and Colonial Extraction
Interview and recording

Friday, October 9
Darren Gobert, Theater Studies
Purge
Interview and Recording

Friday, October 16
Jesús Ruiz, Franklin Humanities Institute, History, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies (AAHVS)
"I Burn My Nation": Black Royalists and Monarchical Thought in the Haitian Revolution
Interview and Recording

Friday, October 23
Felipe de Brigard, Philosophy
Nostalgia Reimagined
Interview and Recording

Friday, October 30
Michael Kliën, Dance
Wild Thoughts and the Killing of the Octopus: Social Choreography as an Aesthetics of Governance
Interview and Recording

Friday, November 6
Fadi A. Bardawil, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Overcoming Theory’s Resistances: Translating Arab Revolutions Past and Present
Interview and Recording

Spring 2021 Schedule

Friday, January 29
Laura Lieber, Religious Studies
Bodies of Knowledge: Recovering the Lost Drama of the Early Synagogue
Interview and recording

Friday, February 5
Lee Baker, Cultural Anthropology
W.E.B. DuBois, Franz Boas, and "the Real Race Problem"
Interview and recording

Friday, February 12
Philip Rupprecht, Music
Music, Bureaucracy, and the Production of Taste: Malcolm Arnold and the BBC in the 1950s
Interview and recording

Friday, February 19
Jarvis McInnis, English
Tuskegee & the Plantationocene: Toward a Theory of Eco-Ontology in Black Studies
Interview and recording

Friday, February 26
Martin Miller, History
Western Documentary Photography of the Soviet Union, 1928-1968
Interview and recording

Friday, March 5
Roberto Dainotto, Romance Studies
Sovversivismo: Gramsci on Reactionary Insurrections
Interview and recording

Friday, March 12
Henry Pickford, German Studies
Thinking with Adorno
Interview and recording

Friday, March 19
Jehanne Gheith, Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Still Alice, Always Elena: New Stories about Dementia
Interview and recording