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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    next meeting: Tuesday 10/23 from 4:30 – 6:30 in Rm 5109 (globalization room)

    We will be reading

    1. Alain Badiou’s Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings

    Intro (read)
    Chapter 1: Capitalism […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Our next session will be with Prof. Mehmet Tabak from NYU. We will be reading chapters from his new book Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx’s Philosophy.

    Thursday 2/14 at 6pm in the Globalization Room (room […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Tuesday 12/4 @ 6:00pm
    location: Globalization room (5109) at the CUNY Graduate Center

    S’Bu Zikode, “The Shackdwellers Movement of Durban”

    Massimo De Angelis, “Enclosures, Commons, and the […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Our upcoming meeting with Don Robotham will address the tension of rights/liberal democracy and political-economic transformation. What is the relationship between a long-term goal of transformation and the […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Please join us for the first meeting of the year as we plan out readings/speakers/themes. There will be no readings for this session but please bring ideas for things you would like to discuss this […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Our next meeting will focus on the work of Antonio Gramsci, with special guest Kate Crehan.

    Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 6:30pm
    Room 5109

    the readings are:
    Gramsci, “Some Aspects of Southern Question”
    Gramsci, […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    The LJGPF seminar presents…

    Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation
    May 3 & 4

    featuring new papers by
    Amiel Melnick
    Shea McManus
    Anjuli Raza Kolb
    Jini Kim Watson
    Kareem Rabie
    Jeremy […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Opening remarks by Jay Blair:

    Questions for discussion: What are the material conditions of abandonment? Do you see anticolonial, new social movements exhausting late liberalism and nonliberal nation-states […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Our next meeting will be………..

    C.L.R. James
    Tuesday April 24th @ 6:30pm
    Room 5109 (in the Graduate Center)

    readings:

    1. Cedric Robinson, “C.L.R. James and the Black Radical Tradition” in Black […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Elizabeth Povinelli, “The Child in the Broom Closet” in Economies of Abandonment
    Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

    Discussant: Jay Blair, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

    12 […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Opening remarks by Amiel Melnick:

    In tracing out links between what have been understood as different forms of insurance in the United States—insurance taken out on slaves, and life insurance—Michael […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Comrades,

    Here are the details for our reading session on Mao:

    Tuesday, March 27, 6:30pm @ Slattery’s Bar (8 East 36th st)

    We will be reading Mao’s five essays on philosophy: “On Practice”, “On […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Imperialism and the Neoliberal State in the Middle East and South Asia

    States in the Middle East and South Asia embrace international finance capital even as they remain under the threat of foreign […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Our next session with feature readings by Stuart Hall, Bob Jessop, and Philip Abrams.

    Tuesday, March 13 @ 6:30pm at Slattery’s.

    The readings are:

    Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show,” Marxism Today […]

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    GC Marxist Reading Group

    Prabhat Patnaik’s opening remarks:

    What framework is needed to understand land acquisition in India? In Marx’s analysis of older, pre-capitalist communities, land acquisition involved the dispossession of the […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    “Telling Histories”: a discussion between Laurent Dubois, Greg Grandin, and Gary Wilder

    While Haiti’s complex and “cursed” past was often used by journalists to explain its recent and tragic upheaval, these […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Discussion of selected readings by Muneer Ahmad

    “Resisting Guantánamo: Rights at the Brink of Dehumanization,” Northwestern University Law Review 103.4 (2009): 1683-1763.

    Discussant: Ximena García […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Opening remarks by Mariana Assis:

    I would like to start by suggesting a collective exercise of revisiting the objectives and questions initially raised by this seminar, so they remain on the background of our […]

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    Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures

    Discussion of selected readings by Nasser Hussain

    “Towards a Jurisprudence of Emergency,” Law and Critique 10 (1999): 93-115.

    Discussant: Mariana Assis, doctoral student, political science, The New […]

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