September 21, 2016
“South Sudan: The Road to Civil War”
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Anthropology, and African Studies,
Columbia University
October 13, 2016
“Migrations, Islands, and the Creative Economy”
Françoise Lionnet, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
November 4, 2016
Colonialism, Slavery, and the Archive: Old and New Practices
Vincent Brown, Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
Elizabeth Dillon, Professor of English, Northeastern University
Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Media Studies, MIT
December 2, 2016
Plantation Dispossession and the Futures of Black Embodiment
Alexander Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University
Katherine McKittrick, Professor of Gender Studies, Queen’s University
Demetrius Eudell, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
January 26, 2017
“Comparative Postcolonial Theory and the Question of Chinese Empire”
Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, UCLA
January 27, 2017
World Studies and Comparative Relation
Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, UCLA
February 16, 2017
Colonial Memory and Trauma
Debarati Sanyal, Professor of French, UC Berkeley
Stef Craps, Associate Professor of English, University of Ghent
February 23, 2017
“The Social Life of DNA”
Alondra Nelson, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
March 9, 2017
Rethinking the Human: Life Between Epistemology and Therapeutics
Emily Martin, Professor of Anthropology, NYU
Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
March 28, 2017
David Chidester, Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Cape Town
March 29, 2017
“Religion’s Imperial Pasts, Global Futures”
David Chidester, Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Cape Town
April 3, 2017
“The Politics of Human Rights”
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
April 20, 2017
Sovereignty, Settler Colonialism, Territoriality and Resistance
Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Jessica Cattelino, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
