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Just Law symposium

Posted on April 23, 2012 by neil

The LJGPF seminar presents… Just Law: Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation May 3 & 4 2012 featuring new papers by Amiel Melnick Shea McManus Anjuli Raza Kolb Jini Kim Watson Kareem Rabie Jeremy Rayner in conversation with Mandana Limbert Kandice Chuh Sujatha … Continue reading →

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notes from 4/20 seminar

Posted on April 23, 2012 by neil

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 like China enduring it, in agreement with Arrighi? With this mode of … Continue reading →

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4/20 seminar with Elizabeth Povinelli

Posted on April 8, 2012 by neil

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 – 2pm, Room 8400 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue) * All seminar readings … Continue reading →

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notes from 2/3 seminar

Posted on March 25, 2012 by neil

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 Ralph’s paper draws our attention to speculative capital and its … Continue reading →

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3/23 discussion on Muneer Ahmad

Posted on March 11, 2012 by neil

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 Bustamante, doctoral student, political science, CUNY Graduate Center 12 – 2pm, Room 7314 (Graduate Center, … Continue reading →

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3/19 special event

Posted on March 11, 2012 by neil

“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 historical retellings frequently did more to malign and undermine … Continue reading →

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notes from 3/9 seminar

Posted on March 11, 2012 by neil

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 discussion of the relationship between emergency … Continue reading →

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3/9 discussion on Nasser Hussain

Posted on March 3, 2012 by neil

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 School 12 – 2pm, Room 6421 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue) * All … Continue reading →

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notes from 12/9 seminar

Posted on February 7, 2012 by neil

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 time … Continue reading →

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2/3 seminar with Michael Ralph

Posted on January 27, 2012 by neil

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 University Discussant: Amiel Melnick, doctoral student, anthropology, Columbia University 12 – 2pm, Room … Continue reading →

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