Please use this page to post any general thoughts or discussion related to the seminar.
Also, see the notes from each of our past meetings through the links below:
9/16 – Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question”
11/11 – Emmanuel Levinas, “Peace and Proximity”
12/9 – Nancy Fraser, “Can society be commodities all the way down?”
2/3 – Michael Ralph, “Life…in the midst of death”
3/9 – Nasser Hussain, “Towards a Jurisprudence of Emergency”


Hi Jinny, thanks for your interest!
We will post a full schedule of the symposium on the blog shortly– please be on the lookout for it. In the meantime, Prof Asad’s keynote will be at 5/3, 6:30pm in the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. The workshop sessions with Jini Kim Watson, Amiel Melnick, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Shea McManus, Kareem Rabie, and Jeremy Rayner will take place on 5/4 throughout the day.
We will also be having an event with Elizabeth Povinelli on April 20th. (info to be sent out over listserv and posted on this blog)
Hope to see you at some of these events.
I am interested in the upcoming event May 3-4 2012 featuring Talal Assad, Jini Kim Watson and many more. Can you please tell me more about this conference, or point me to more information?
Thank you — amazing line up of speakers for your events last year, I would love to be added to a listserv
Jinny