The Center for Place, Culture and Politics’ Annual Conference 2024: Abolition and/as Activism

Friday May 3, 5PM-8:30 PM & Saturday May 4 10AM-8:30PM
The People’s Forum (320 West 37th Street)

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics’ Annual Conference 2024:
Abolition and/as Activism

Register here for the in-person conference. This event will also be livestreamed. HERE is the link for May 3. HERE is the link for May 4.

 

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Movement Building, Capitalism, and the State

Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 PM
The Graduate Center CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue)
Skylight room (9th floor)

Movement Building, Capitalism, and the State:
Struggles in Education Transportation & Agriculture

Join authors Ujju Aggarwal, Maria Luisa Mendonca and Kafui Attoh in a conversation on capitalism, the state, and movement building, with Ruth Wilson Gilmore as discussant. Drawing on material from their recently released books, Usettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education, The Political Economy of Agribusiness, and Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City the authors will discuss the links between the neoliberal restructuring of school systems, food systems, and urban transportation systems.

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