Caribbean Studies
Events
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Capitalism and the Sea
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhile sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.
$40 – $60 -
Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
Online Event - Zoom MeetingEmpire's Endgame maps the complex relations between empire, racist culture, political economy, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book's story unfolds in Britain, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities.
$20 – $52 -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis panel explores what it means to act as a revolutionary subject through analysis of Walter Rodney’s ambivalence about Rosa’s criticisms of revolutionary Russia, critical consideration of Rosa’s writings on slave resistance, indispensability for contemporary progressive politics in South Africa, and turn to the other-than-human world to counteract the political violence of incarceration.
$7 – $11 -
Capitalism and the Sea
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhile sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.
$40 – $60 -
Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
Online Event - Zoom MeetingEmpire's Endgame maps the complex relations between empire, racist culture, political economy, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book's story unfolds in Britain, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities.
$20 – $52 -
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: The Mass Strike Past and Present
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe speakers in this fourth session reposition Rosa Luxemburg's analysis in the contexts of the United States Civil War, the Arab Spring, and the twenty-first century migrations northward through the American hemisphere.
$7 – $11 -
Capitalism and the Sea
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhile sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.
$40 – $60 -
Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
Online Event - Zoom MeetingEmpire's Endgame maps the complex relations between empire, racist culture, political economy, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book's story unfolds in Britain, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities.
$20 – $52 -
Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
$25 – $45 -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis session will be devoted to engaging with Rosa’s pivotal reworking of the concept of primitive accumulation, with attention to historical and contemporary South Africa, medieval European race-making and its legacies, and contemporary commodification of women’s reproductive labor.
$7 – $9 -
Capitalism and the Sea
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhile sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.
$40 – $60 -
Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
Online Event - Zoom MeetingEmpire's Endgame maps the complex relations between empire, racist culture, political economy, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book's story unfolds in Britain, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities.
$20 – $52 -
Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
$25 – $45 -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe remaining five sessions of this seminar series explore some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy, including the mass strike; her reflections, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present.
$7 – $11 -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe remaining five sessions of this seminar series explore some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy, including the mass strike; her reflections, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present.
$7 – $11