Events
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (6) – Theodor Adorno
Negative dialectics anyone? Jon Catlin (Princeton Univ.) and Jack Palmer discuss the contemporary relevance of Theodor Adorno’s hardcore Marxism
PGR: Bauman Annual Graduate Workshop – Future Cities, Future Citizenship
A workshop for graduate students in social and critical theory, with presentations of work in progress and feedback discussion
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (7) – Achille Mbembe
Muneeb Hafiz (Lancaster University) and Rebecca Porter (SSP) discuss critical applications of the key decolonial thinker, Achille Mbembe
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (8) – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
TBC. Molly Geidel (University of Manchester) and Nic Salazar-Sutil (UoL) discuss the postcolonial Bolivian theorist of indigenous identities and cultures
Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings Vol.1
Book launch of a new edited volume of Zygmunt Bauman’s unpublished writings on Culture and Art
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MOBILITIES: Psychogeography, Flanerie or Pilgrimage? New works by Rodanthi Tzanelli
DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. Invited discussants Dominic Lapointe, Ole B. Jensen, and Noel Salazar discuss Rodanthi Tzanelli’s new works
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (5) – Sabu Kohso
Activist, theorist and translator, Sabu Kohso, joins us from New York, with Ruskin School of Art’s Jason Waite, to discuss his new book with Duke UP
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (4) – Lauren Berlant
RECONFIRMED (CO-ORG WITH CIGS). Ruth Holliday and Adrian Favell discuss Cruel Optimism – What is affect theory, and is it a “militant epistemology”?
ARTS: Austin Harrington’s new book on Georg Simmel
Invited commentators Tom Kemple, Elizabeth Goodstein and Nicola Marcucci discuss a new collection of Georg Simmel’s essays edited by Austin Harrington
Albena Azmanova talk
Albena Azmanova, from our International Advisory Network, presents her recent book Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia.
PGR: The Trouble With Being Human These Days
Film viewing and discussion of the Bauman Institute film on the life and work of Zygmunt Bauman, The Trouble With Being Human These Days
ARTS: Artivism for Social Justice Now
An interdisciplinary roundtable on arts-based collaborative methods and practices as forms of activism which address inequality and exclusion today. With invited artist Eirini Kaptani.
Guardians of the Forest: Where Do Trees Stand Now?
A talk by BI associate Nicolas Salazar Sutil, co-sponsored by Performance and Creative Industries at Leeds, on the legal and moral standing of trees, in relation to earth justice and environmental activism
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (3) – Michel Foucault
Tom Campbell and Adrian Favell discuss different readings of Foucault’s work and whether a “militant epistemology” can be found in it
Eva Illouz
Austin Harrington and Ruth Holliday discuss the work of the eminent sociologist of love