Events

Politics Speakers Series and Social Democracy Suppressed Series present: Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University The recent financial crisis has given rise to a resurgence of interest in the tense relationship of capitalism and democracy. What this literature has tended to ignore is the fact that the financial

Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, A 106 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 A talk with former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff Mediation by Professor Nancy Fraser How did the

Paul Starr Princeton University April 20, 6pm, University Center, Room L104 (63 Fifth Ave) The Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act and to eliminate Medicaid’s status as an entitlement is not the first time conservatives have sought to stop, undo, or redirect reforms that have expanded health insurance and health care.

Megan Jacobs, Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712   In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its First Annual Graduate Fellows Symposium: What’s the matter with Capitalism? Friday, April 21 A symposium confronting contemporary capitalism, examining the ways in which the dynamics of accumulation, dispossession, and social reproduction shape – and are shaped by – the movements of people, substances and ideas. Discussions

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its Social Democracy Suppressed Series, with stimulating events on April and May. Join us! Panic at the Pump: the Energy Crisis of the 1970s and the Transformation of American Politics Meg Jacobs Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712

March 28, 6pm, Wolff Conference Room (6 E 16th St, Room 1103) Neil Roberts Associate Professor, Africana Studies Program and Faculty Affiliate, Departments of Political Science & Religion, Williams College Neil Roberts’s colloquium talk draws upon core claims advanced in the author’s recent book Freedom as Marronage and it delves into the implications of the work’s argument for the

Imagining the Future: financial capitalism and the social imagination Start: Jul 11, 2017 09:00 AM End: Jul 11, 2017 08:00 PM Location: University College London, Institute of Advanced Studies, IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building This conference is co-funded by the IAS under this year’s research theme of Planetary Futures. Call for Papers The convenors

Genres of Speculation opens a discussion concerning the modes of fantasy and forecast that lie at the heart of racialized economies of enjoyment and terror while also attending to the forms of imagination and tabulation that strain against these structuring relays of desire, knowledge and violence. How have enduring matrices of antiblack violence prefigured the