“A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times” is a three-year initiative of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP), and the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab (CRACS Co-Lab) at New York University. Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project is led by scholars Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, UC Berkeley, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Co-Director, CRACS Co-Lab, New York University, Shannon Jackson, Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric & of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Director, EAHI, UC Berkeley, and Debarati Sanyal, Professor of French, Director, CICI, UC Berkeley.
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