CONFERENCE: BLACK AMERICAN POPULAR RELIGION
A talk by Josef Sorett (Columbia University)

Vinay Gidwani is a Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota and The CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a former member of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center.

This talk, titled “Gramsci at the Margins: A Pre-History Nepal’s Maoist Movement” was given at the CUNY Graduate Center on November 1, 2011 as a part of the Geography Colloquium Speaker Series, sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program and the Provost’s Office.

The paper by Vinay Gidwani and Dinesh Paudel can be downloaded by clicking here: “Gramsci at the Margins”

A roundtable discussion October 4, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb92WcDgg1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m–zllMhhzc

Etienne Balibar: Europe, America, and the Crisis

Etienne Balibar
EUROPE, AMERICA, AND THE CRISIS
A PHILOSOPHER’S REMARKS
Monday, October 3rd 2011, from 6 to 7:30p
Skylight Room | The Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday, October 5th 2011, from 12 to 2p
Room 5109 | The Graduate Center

Etienne Balibar (°1942) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X. As one of Louis Althusser’s most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the collective theoretical masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself amongst the most subtle philosophical and political thinkers in France. He has worked extensively on general problematics such as the theme of universalism and difference. He has also addressed topical questions such as European racism, the notion of the border, whether a European citizenship is possible or desirable, violence and politics, identity and emancipation. His books include Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser, New Left Books 1970), Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso 1991), The Philosophy of Marx, Spinoza and Politics, Politics and the Other Scene (Verso 2002), and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press 2004).

The CUNY Graduate Center
Committee on Globalization and Social Change Presents
MUSLIM ZION
A Talk By Faisal Devji
September 27, 2011
Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and Head of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, from where he directed post-graduate courses in the Near East and Central Asia.
Devji is the author of three books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009), and The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2011). He is interested in the political thought of modern Islam as well as in the transformation of liberal categories and democratic practice in South Asia. Devji’s broader concerns are with ethics and violence in a globalized world, particularly with the thought and practices of Mahatma Gandhi, who was among the earliest and perhaps most perceptive commentator on this predicament of our times.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics