Category Archives: Book Event
BOOK EVENT: Caste Rebellion
Caste Rebellion: The Origins of the Guatemalan Plantation State, 1780-1940
Book Launch: Thursday, March 24th 2022, 5-7pm (EST)
Register here.
BOOK EVENT: The Ethics of Saving Animals
Elan Abrell, author of Animal Sanctuaries: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care, will be joined by author and professor, Lori Gruen, director of Animal Studies at Wesleyan University, to discuss the meaning of care and the many ethical dilemmas faced by caregivers in captive animal sanctuaries.
BOOK EVENT: Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism and Citizenship
BOOK EVENT: Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
18 November 2021, 1PM EST (NYC), 8PM SAST (Johannesburg)
Online event, register here.
Please join author Trevor Ngwame as he discusses his book Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements with Peter Hitchcock and Ashley Dawson.
BOOK EVENT: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited
PALESTINE IS THROWING A PARTY AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS INVITED: CAPITAL AND STATE BUILDING IN THE WEST BANK
Thursday 23 September 2021: 1-2:30PM ET, 6-7:30PM UK, 8-9:30PM Palestine
Register here and join on Facebook.
Join Mezna Qato (University of Cambridge), David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center), and Kareem Rabie (University of Illinois, Chicago) in conversation about Rabie’s new book Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited (Duke University Press 2021).
Andrew Ross Book Talk: Sunbelt Blues
Thursday, 9 September 2021 at 4:30-6:00 pm ET
Register here to participate online in this virtual event: https://tinyurl.com/b7bnrat9