Social Science Seminar 2021-2022
The Social Science Seminar meets each week on Monday from 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m in the Dilworth Room. Attendees include the Faculty, Members, and Visitors of the School of Social Science as well as invited colleagues from the School of Historical Studies. Attendance is currently restricted to IAS scholars. If you have questions about the Seminar, please contact Miriam Harris at 609-734-8250 or mharris@ias.edu.
Seminar Schedule
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2021 |
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| September 27 | Didier Fassin |
A Scene at the Border. Nocturnal Encounters and Political Dramaturgies |
| October 4 | Yves Winter |
Toward a New Theory of the Political Imaginary |
| October 11 | Cecilia Palmeiro |
Ni Una Menos and the Global Feminist Tide |
| October 18 | Judith Scheele | The Power of Movement: Saharan Perspectives on Politics |
| October 25 | Magali Bessone |
Toward a Moral Economy of Antiracism in France |
| November 1 | Anthony Alessandrini | Dropping Crumbs as We Go: Community Education as Political Praxis |
| November 8 | Deb Vargas | Culture of Poverty Politics and Latinx Gender and Sexuality |
| November 15 | Asli Igsiz | Fascist Utopias: A History of the Present in Palimpsests |
| November 22 | Marielle Debos |
Biometrics and the Promise of Democracy in Africa |
| November 29 | Daniel Agbiboa | #EndSARS: Police Brutality and the Voice of the Unpeople |
| December 6 | William Callison | Haywire Liberalism and the Market for Far-Right Rebellion |
| December 13 | Zachariah Mampilly | Social Movements and the Future of the Global Order |
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| January 24 | Wendy Brown | What's Left of Freedom? |
| January 31 | Debaditya Bhattacharya |
"Even so quickly may one catch the plague?": Universities, borders and illegal migrants |
| February 7 | Elizabeth Saleh | Salvaging Labor: Growing up at a Beirut Scrapyard |
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February 14 February 22 |
Harel Shapira Biko Koenig |
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| February 28 | Maka Suarez | |
| March 7 | Kenneth Roberts | Democracy's Dialectic: Movements, Crises of Representation, and the Endogeneity of Democratic Backsliding |
| March 14 | Jill Frank | |
| March 21 | Robyn Marasco | |
| March 28 | Matthew Shafer | |
| April 4 | Emily Merchant | |
| April 11 | Zahra Ali | |
| April 18 | Tanisha Ford | What Gives?: Philanthropy and the Black Freedom Movement Archive |
| April 25 | Keisha Blain |
Black Women, Radical Politics, and Global Visions of Freedom |
Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included on this site. Please refer to the descriptions above for exact topic of talk.