SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
Except where noted in bold in the list below, the Social Science Seminar is held on Mondays from 10:30am-12:00pm in Room 5 of Rubenstein Commons. Attendees include Faculty, Members, and Visitors in the School of Social Science. Colleagues from across the campus community are welcome to attend, as are invited scholars from other institutions.
2024 | ||
September 30 | Didier Fassin | Exile as a Form of Life and the Political Violence of Borders |
October 7 | E. Tendayi Achiume | Corporate Borders |
October 14 | Bernardo Zacka | American Jobcenters and the Effacement of the Welfare State |
October 21 | Iymon Majid | Securing Territory: Land, Politics and Religion in Kashmir |
October 28 | R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy | The Afterlives of Integration |
November 4 | Wendy Brown | Listening for Political Freedom |
November 11 | Ulla Berg | Figures of Deportation |
November 18 | Jeanne Morefield | Liberalism's Doppelgänger: Sex Trafficking and the Global Imaginary |
November 25 | Nicholas De Genova | The Migrant Metropolis |
December 3 | Nahoko Kameo | Existential Robotics: Social roboticists and the dream of knowing humans through robot-making |
December 9 | Leszek Koczanowicz | Bodies of Politics: Somaesthetics, Somapower, Microphysics of Emancipation and Niches of Liberation |
2025 | ||
January 21 (TUESDAY) | Alondra Nelson | Reimagining Resistance in the “Black Box Society” |
January 27 | Mahua Sarkar | Moving Stories: Contemporary Guestwork and Bangladeshi Contract Migrants |
February 3 | Brian Jordan Jefferson | Cybernetics and State Form |
February 10 | Ayten Gündoğdu | Forced Disappearances: Race, Law, and Violence at the Borders |
February 18 | Mike Amezcua | The Latino Urban Roots of Laissez-Faire Capitalism |
February 24 | Thomas Ordóñez | At the crux of global flows: rethinking Colombia’s borderlands |
March 3 | David Owen | What is the ‘place’ in displacement? |
March 10 | Ahmad Qais Munhazim | When Home is Nowhere: Refugee Regimes of Estrangement and Ethnography of Queer and Trans Afghan Exiles |
March 17 | Diana Allan | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon |
March 24 | Paisley Currah | Legislating Gender |
March 31 | Hannah Bloch-Wehba | Information Nation: How Silicon Valley Transformed Governance |
April 7 | Çetin Çelik | Symbolic Boundary Work among Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Perceived Stigmas, Responses, and Cultural Repertoires |
April 21 | Sandipto Dasgupta | Decolonization and Public Ownership |
April 28 | Rajbir Judge | A Critique of Contextual Reason |
Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included elsewhere on this site. Please refer to the titles above for the topic of each talk.