Social Science Seminar 2022-2023
The Social Science Seminar is held in Rubenstein Commons, Room 5. Except where noted (in bold in the list below) the seminar meets on Mondays, from 10:00am-11:45am. Attendees include the Faculty, Members, and Visitors in the School of Social Science as well as invited colleagues from the School of Historical Studies. Advance registration is required for all attendees not currently affiliated with the School of Social Science.
Seminar Schedule
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2022 |
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| September 26 | Wendy Brown |
Rethinking Politics and Freedom in the (Late) Anthropocene |
| October 3 12:30-2:15pm West Lecture Hall |
Samera Esmeir |
The Struggle That Remains: Between World and International |
| October 10 | Catalina Muñoz |
Historical Thinking and Transitional Justice: Perspectives from Colombia |
| October 17 | K-Sue Park | Homesteading and the American Dream |
| October 24 | Kian Goh |
Urbanizing Climate Justice |
| October 31 | Didier Fassin |
The Judge and the Ethnographer: Recounting a Police Killing and Revisiting its Dismissal |
| November 7 | Saygun Gökarıksel | Moral Autopsy: A Critical Anthropology of Reckoning with the Communist Past in the European East |
| November 14 | Hillary Angelo | Power and Light: Public Lands and the Energy Transition |
| November 21 | JT Roane |
Plot |
| November 29 Tuesday |
Minhua Ling | The Complacency of the Chinese Dream: Mobility and Citizenship in Fraction |
| December 5 | Lynne Huffer | Inhuman Time: The Ethics of Extinction in the Anthropocene |
| December 12 | Lorenzo Alunni | Odysseus' Scars: Bodies and Borders in the Mediterranean |
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| January 23 DILWORTH ROOM |
Timothy Mitchell | The EconoCon: Climate Crisis and the Alibi of Growth |
| January 30 | Heba Gowayed |
The Cost of Borders |
| February 6 | Alyssa Battistoni | Planetmaking: Nature as Capital |
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February 13 |
Jennifer Lee |
The Asian American Assimilation Paradox |
| February 21 Tuesday |
Stefan Eich | Greening Keynes: Money, Time, and Democracy |
| March 6 11am-12:45pm |
Nayanika Mathur | Pandemic Papers: the state of the Hindu Rashtra in contemporary India |
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March 13 |
Maira Hayat | Duties of Water: Bureaucratic Labor and the Postcolonial Promise |
| March 15 1-2:45 ZOOM WEBINAR |
Christina Dunbar-Hester | The Fungible Coast? California Wildlife Conservation in the Space of Empire |
| March 20 | Heather Davis | Petro-time: on the temporal politics of climate change |
| March 27 11am-12:45pm |
Philippe Le Billon |
Green Extractivism and the Climate Crisis REGISTER |
| April 3 | Natasha Iskander | Power made concrete: The labor politics of decarbonization |
| April 10 | Sara Pursley | Iraq and the Moral Mandate, or the British Tribal Code in the Web of Life |
| April 13 Thursday 1-3pm |
Assefa Fiseha | Nation Building in Countries with Deeply Divided Societies |
| April 17 | Andreas Folkers |
Fossil modernity. A natural history of the present |
| April 24 | Julia Dehm |
Accounting for Carbon: Targets, Inventories and Risks |
| May 1 | Matthew Salganik | The predictability conjecture |
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.