CUNY Academic Commons | neil | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/nagarwal/activity/ Activity feed for neil. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5645743749e07dfe2ee20521a97d7185 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/10/1023-reading-session-on-badiou-and-prashad-2/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:21:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> bb8ea17745f2349f0c3a62fddcc08246 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/10/214-discussion-with-mehmet-tabak/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> c063cdb9679a4c99ca330d90e800622f neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/12/01/124-reading-session-on-democracy-and-the-left/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:09:33 -0500 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 […]

]]> bdb97a79f07ec6cd0620ef1e35bc2a07 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/10/1120-discussion-with-don-robotham/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:02:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> 18e051735d157c7eabcd9d87bb21a90a neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/09/20/101-first-meeting-of-semester/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:44:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 5604b0911db677141caf1501dc6b877a neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/10/515-discussion-with-kate-crehan/ Thu, 10 May 2012 15:14:11 -0400 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, […]

]]> c8318b50cde8407ff46cc11f11d786ee neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/just-law-intervention-reparation-emancipation/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:23:10 -0400 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 […]

]]> 98ab7e0ba49e435b707befb14d8fbf47 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/notes-from-420-seminar/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:13:29 -0400 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 […]

]]> b100d3cbceb065a6ecea566aebaadc5f neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/17/424-reading-session-on-c-l-r-james/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:30:34 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2b0d179bbc3aa9412173fa0514fbc2dc neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/420-seminar-with-elizabeth-povinelli/ Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:13:34 -0400 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 […]

]]> 6222ab547bf52ff2e90860aa9a46ca89 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/notes-from-23-seminar/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:36:52 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1258578e443dfbf26dfd51b6f01ed756 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/25/327-reading-session-on-mao/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:26:18 -0400 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 […]

]]> 4636d6e39f3958547ad51822371a5c3a neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/16/left-forum-panel-on-saturday-317/ Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:54:02 -0400 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 […]

]]> e7e86a28408c79a469af1c5a01710a5b neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/11/313-reading-session-on-the-hall-jessop-debate/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:55:01 -0400 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 […]

]]> f8e00de5855be052be47ec36657a4b48 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/11/1025-notes-on-meeting-with-prabhat-patnaik/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:48:24 -0400 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 […]

]]> bb6e562e9de357dbf51b7c6f0ae93ecc neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/319-special-event/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:16:36 -0400 “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 […]

]]> d65c1cf3e2ec8988cedfbba9a01dec9c neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/323-discussion-on-muneer-ahmad/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:57:14 -0400 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 […]

]]> e8b12b0f11d116a9b0e02a88875a85f4 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/notes-from-39-seminar/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:14 -0400 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 […]

]]> eb1a6fda7651c3014a105f5b3b8fbbec neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/39-discussion-on-nasser-hussain-2/ Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:56:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6da81df667c474175bd88108fe1bfea7 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/02/25/229-discussion-with-prabhat-patnaik/ Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:31:04 -0500 Our next meeting will be on Wednesday February 29, 2012 at 4:00pm, Room 5109.

We will meet with Prabhat Patnaik to discuss economic recession and the world food crisis. All are welcome to attend. For a copy of […]

]]> fdc50c51f1cfe68db2e4bfc654fe8744 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/14/033011-session-on-anwar-shaikh/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:17:32 -0500 readings:

Anwar Shaikh, “The First Great Depression of the 21st Century”

]]> 05e7c00e5915d0cdc353bda2c5715a25 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/27/030311-session-on-koselleck-and-negri/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:17:21 -0500 readings:

Reinhart Koselleck, “Crisis”
Antonio Negri, “Crisis of the Planner-State: Communism and Revolutionary Organization”

]]> 22da42273a02144a2089c37525c044ea neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/02/041311-session-on-samir-amin/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:17:00 -0500 readings:

Samir Amin, The Law of Worldwide Value

]]> ddecb97757f8b0f423e80e686c8c6b3c neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/15/discussion-with-neil-smith/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:16:44 -0500 readings:

Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

]]> 493c7bb6595706041a6b422a867def41 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/09/28/104-reading-session-on-arrighi/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:16:09 -0500 Reading:

Giovanni Arrighi, The Geometry of Imperialism

Tuesday, October 4 @ 6:30pm at room 6107.

]]> 956454c85ae7580569aaab36e1f785c2 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/10/19/1025-reading-session-on-lenin/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:15:36 -0500 Our next meeting will be on:

Lenin’s State and Revolution

Tuesday, October 25 @ 6:30pm at Slattery’s.

See you there!

]]> 0356b442b2eda5bd243575aa7742d8a5 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/11/20/1129-reading-session-on-marxs-political-writings/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:14:00 -0500 Comrades,

Our final meeting of the semester is on Tuesday, November 29 at 6:30pm @ Slattery’s.

We will discuss two political writings from Marx:

The Civil War in France (section on Paris Commune)
The […]

]]> 8cdb6fc17421c0973204ed581148cfe9 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/02/20/221-reading-session-on-the-poulanztas-miliband-debate/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:12:37 -0500 Comrades,

Our first meeting of the semester will tackle the Poulanztas-Miliband debate.

Tuesday, February 21 @ 6:30pm at Slattery’s.

The four readings are:

Nicos Poulantzas, “The Problem of the […]

]]> dff3c4b68dacc971b0e42c48f5e21d2e neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/02/notes-from-129-seminar/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:44 -0500 Opening remarks by Jini Kim Watson:

I’d like to thank Nancy Fraser for sharing with us this provocative paper and for taking the time to join us today. I’m going to keep my comments brief, to allow for maximum […]

]]> c8fb9f98a80c9a1a9cc3efeb87521739 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/01/23-seminar-with-michael-ralph/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:14:42 -0500 Michael Ralph, “‘Life…in the midst of death’: Notes on the relationship between slave insurance and life insurance”
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York […]

]]> 498f61f0efb105e00b6316c34a6b2646 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/12/129-seminar-with-nancy-fraser/ Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:15:14 -0500 Nancy Fraser, “Can society be commodities all the way down? Polanyian reflections on capitalist crisis” Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science, The New School for Social Research Discussant: Jini Kim Watson, Assistant Professor, Depts. of English and Comparative Literature, New York University 12 – 2pm, Room 4433 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth […]

]]> f77b751b87e29f344494f64d23983cbc Neil Agarwal became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50030/ Wed, 04 May 2011 22:20:14 -0400 fc3eee9a5502020e2993319d4dd0f7db neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/29/0506-closing-session/ Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:10:00 -0400 For our last session of the semester, we will celebrate and reflect upon the seminar over the past year, and brainstorm ideas for 2011-2012. New participants are encouraged to attend.

2 – 4pm, Room C415A (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 45db75e9162365ea276a3fbd72e68125 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/18/0429-seminar-with-uday-singh-mehta/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:18:40 -0400 Uday Singh Mehta, “Gandhi on Fear, Sacrifice and the Forging of a People”
Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Discussant: Anjuli Raza Kolb, PhD student in English and Comparative Literature,                       Columbia University

2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 61c36067ba1e89c3099e9c0c07d7a7f8 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/17/0401-seminar-with-nathaniel-berman/ Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:15:52 -0400 Nathaniel Berman, “‘The Sacred Conspiracy’: Religion, Nationalism, and the Crisis of Internationalism”
Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture, Brown University

Discussant: Ayça Çubukçu, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University

2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 1ee40dc242ce72cfa2a690c249931160 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/07/0318-discussion-of-antony-anghie-imperialism-sovereignty-and-the-making-of-international-law/ Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:19:33 -0500 Discussion of selected readings by Antony Anghie

Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law: 13-52, 65-114,

2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 376bc3137328dcd7918a9f40bb586092 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/27/0304-discussion-of-hannah-arendt/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:14:22 -0500 Discussion of selected readings by Hannah Arendt

“The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man” in Origins of Totalitarianism, and Eichmann in Jerusalem: 3-20, 234-279

2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 7ca61e7e2a4bd69e5afe801f84f57d53 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/12/021711-discussion-with-michael-blim/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:45:35 -0500 readings:
Giovanni Arrighi, “Towards a Theory of Capitalist Crisis”

Michael Blim, “Economic Crisis, 2008: What Happened, and What Can Be Learned about How and Why, and What Could Happen Next?”

]]> 0a995cecaa8a1ffed391c232cd9c0fde neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/11/0218-seminar-with-joseph-slaughter/ Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:51:44 -0500 Joseph Slaughter, “Pathetic Fallacies: Personification, Human Rights, and the Humanities”
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Discussant: Kandice Chuh, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center

2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> f1f1218fec13a03ef1eea0142996b304 neil wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/05/1210-seminar-with-talal-asad/ Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:47:35 -0500 Talal Asad, “Human Atrocities, Human Rights” and “Thinking about Terrorism and Just War”
Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Discussant: Ahmed Sharif, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

12 – 2pm, Room C205 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

]]> 918b64ca86da02d811c005d4d162069d neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/02/121510-discussion-with-talal-asad/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:38:26 -0500 readings: “Ideology, Class and the Origin of the Islamic State.” Economy and Society 10.4 (1981): 498-9. “Are There Histories of Peoples Without Europe?” Comparative Studies in Society and History 29.3 (1987): 594-607. “Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology.” 14.4 Man (1979): 607-627. Scott’s Interview The Trouble of Thinking published in Talal Asad and his Interlocutors, […]

]]> 49bdcb8896f42392c5f6229a2952b608 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/02/111810-discussion-with-don-robotham/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:54:57 -0400 readings:
Hegel, preface to the Philosophy of Right

Shlomo Avineri, Hegel’s Theory of the State (chapters 5 and 6)

Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham, “At an Impasse? Anti-capitalism and the Social Forums Today”

]]> eaee4cf239f3fe5306a2365d9eb6dfb5 neil wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/25/david-harvey/ Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:49:58 -0400 readings:
David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital

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