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 →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 … Continue reading →

Mahmood Mamdani, “Beyond
 Nuremberg: 
The 
Historical 
Significance
 of 
the 
Post­ Apartheid
 Transition 
in 
South
 Africa
” Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Discussant: Ahilan Kadirgamar, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center 12 – 2pm, Room 7395 … Continue reading →

Discussion of Karl Marx’s, “On the Jewish Question” Discussants: Mark Drury and Neil Agarwal, doctoral students, anthropology,                         CUNY Graduate Center 12 – 2pm, Room 7395 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue) * All seminar readings are available here. If you are … Continue reading →

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)