Please join us for Fascism: An Eternal Recurrence? an evening panel discussion on modern fascism.
Thursday, February 1, 2024 | 5 - 7 PM 370 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA
During our discussion, we will focus on the question: What is fascism today?
The term "fascism" has returned to our political vocabulary. The practices of modern authoritarian regimes, such as Putin’s Russia, and right-wing populist movements in the Western world are often referred to as fascist (or neo-fascist)....
The UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will host a daylong exploration of the theme "Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in our Times," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In our times, contemporary authoritarian power is invested in promoting ideals of whiteness, patriarchy, and biological reductionism, circulating phantasms of gender and race to incite fear and hatred. The day's events explore what a powerful counter-imaginary might...
Join us for a conversation about the arts, politics, and the making of a more just world. This event is part of the Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times program. Read more about the program here
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | 5 - 7 PM Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 5 PM - 7 PM Geballe Room, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley
Please join us for an evening lecture presented by Eric Fassin, one of France’s leading and widely-translated intellectuals. Fassin’s work focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and immigration in a comparative and transnational perspective. He has been central to dialogues between France and the United States on these questions. A professor of Sociology at Paris 8, he is also Researcher at the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Fassin is a sociologue engagé or “committed sociologist...
We are delighted to announce our annual symposium, Demos Anxiety: “Great Replacement” Theory and Democracy. The event will take place on October 20, 2023, in the Maude Fife Room at UC Berkeley.
Demos Anxiety: “Great Replacement” Theory and Democracy is a daylong symposium that gathers scholars from a range of disciplines (literature, sociology, law) to reflect on conspiracy theories about population replacement. Despite its extremism, “The Great Replacement” theory has worked its way into mainstream political discourses about race, immigration, and religious...
Friday, October 6, 2023 | 10 am – 5 pm 3335 Dwinelle Hall
The study of elements (air, water, and land) is at the center of intersecting discourses (posthuman and anticolonial) in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Climate change and the COVID pandemic have made it urgent to address the ways in which these elements might inform our analyses of bio- and necropolitics, while helping us imagine alternative relationalities.
Please join us for a day-long symposium on the elements, with Mario Telò (Organizer; Rhetoric, Comparative Literature,...
Please join us for a talk by Laura Zander, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre “Law and Literature” at the University of Muenster. The talk will be moderated by Dr. Devin Zuber (Associate Professor, Graduate Theological Union), with a response from Dr. Munir Jiwa (Associate Professor, and Director of the Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union).
Wednesday April 12, 2023, 5 - 6:30 pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall
"Migrancy and Narratibility: Precarious Subjects on the Move between Law...
Please join us for Forms of Psychedelic Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring the Intersections of Aesthetics, Ethics, Religion, and Altered States
April 12-15, 2023
UC Berkeley
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
In a recent article, the anthropologist Eduardo Kohn argues for an attunement to psychedelic – or “mind-manifesting” – shapes and forms as...
We are delighted to announce our inaugural symposium: Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration. The event will take place March 10-11, 2023, at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley.
Borders are marked by fences and walls, but also by technologies, laws, imperial histories of sovereignty and nation states. Borders divide and partition spaces, as visible barriers and as invisible techniques of classification and control, yet their thresholds are also routinely breached, renegotiated, or reimagined by unruly subjects, by...