SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
Except where noted in bold in the list below, the Social Science Seminar is held on Mondays from 10:30am-12:00pm in Room 5 of Rubenstein Commons. Attendees include Faculty, Members, and Visitors in the School of Social Science. Colleagues from across the campus community are welcome to attend, as are invited scholars from other institutions.
2025 | ||
September 29 | Alondra Nelson | Algorithmic Agnotology |
October 6 | Judy Wajcman | Venture Capital as Male-lens Investing |
October 13 | Inés Valdez | Coloniality of Power Meets Dependency Theory: Developmentalism, Marginality, and Marx’s Commune in Quijano’s Socialization of Power |
October 20 | Lilian Mathieu | Surviving and Creating Under Authoritarian Rule |
October 27 | Miguel Vatter | Progress or Return? Capitalism, Entropy and Eternal Recurrence in the Anthropocene |
November 3 | Ayesha Omer | Dust and the Digital Borderland |
November 10 | Diego Rossello | Alternative Energies: Democratic Revolutions, Ecocriticism, and the Hidden Legacy of Animal Magnetism |
November 17 | Shobita Parthasarathy | How the Innovation Economy is Shaping Political and Moral Orders |
November 24 | Corey Robin | King Capital |
December 1 | Alma Steingart | Accountable Democracy: Rethinking United States Political Representation in the Twentieth Century |
December 8 | Taylor Cruz | Digitizing Disease: Technological Transformations of Diabetes Care and Inequality |
2026 | ||
January 20 (TUESDAY, | Wendy Brown | Decentering Law, Centering Power: Recovering from Liberalism in Remaking Democracy |
January 26 | Gastón Gordillo | Here Comes the Horde: The Siege of White Argentina |
February 2
| Sabine Mohamed | Losing Ground: Emergent Black Empire and Counter-Futures in Urban Ethiopia |
February 9 | Molly Crockett | Techno-optimism and Human Pessimism |
February 17 | Jennifer Ponce de León | US Imperialism, Fascism, and Culture |
February 23 | Martín Cortés | Marxism as Translation: On the Theoretical Challenges Posed by Non-Western Marxisms |
March 2 | Taberez Neyazi | The Politics of Internet Shutdown |
March 9 | Fernando Brancoli | Peripheralization as Global Condition: The Amazon, Neoextractivism, and the Fragmentation of the State |
March 16 | Lucas Pinheiro | Enlightenment and the Sugar Plantation Complex |
March 23 | Sarah Jackson | Retheorizing the Digital through African American History: Virality, Migration, and the Long Fight Against Racist Disinformation |
April 6 | Peniel Joseph | Witness: James Baldwin's 1963 |
April 13 | Annelise Riles | Hosting Power: Platform Authority and Community Formation in Post-Institutional Spaces |
April 20 | Didier Fassin | Ultima Verba |
Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included elsewhere on this site. Please refer to the titles above for the topic of each talk.