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The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff
4:00 pm
The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff
@ CUNY Grad Center 5318
Mar 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed through large scale historical events, and that this genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as conceptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense, races are formed not simply as ideas, or ideologies and policies, as many social constructivists about race argue, but as forms of life with associated patterns of subjectivity including, as a wealth of[...]
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An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared World
4:00 pm
An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared World
@ Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) Rm 101
Mar 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and about, this common bind? In[...]
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