Fall 2017

The seminar series that focused on Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures and produced the Foucault 13/13 series during the 2015-2016 academic year; the seminar series focused on critical readings of Friedrich Nietzsche that produced the Nietzsche 13/13 series during the 2016-2017 academic year; and the seminar series that will focus on various modalities of disobedience and revolt and will produce the Uprising 13/13 series all follow a similar format. At each session, two or three guests, from different disciplines, are invited to discuss the readings and present on the themes of the seminar, after which there is an open discussion on the presented themes and questions. Each seminar will host specialists from across the disciplines, from Columbia University and from outside campus. It will also frame and interrelate with a Paris Reading Group that will run alongside the seminar. Please also see the Politics in the Present series which this series also falls under: http://heymancenter.org/events/type/13-13-seminar-series/

13/13 Seminar Series
Uprising 13/13: Revolt- Foucault in Iran

Thursday, December 14, 2017

6/13 | REVOLT: FOUCAULT IN IRAN

13/13 Seminar Series
Uprising 13/13: Satyagraha

Thursday, November 30, 2017

5/13 | SATYAGRAHA

13/13 Seminar Series
Uprising 13/13: #BlackLivesMatter

Thursday, November 9, 2017

4/13 | #BLACKLIVESMATTER

13/13 Seminar Series
Uprising 13/13: Uprising

Thursday, October 26, 2017

3/13 | UPRISING

13/13 Seminar Series
Uprising 13/13: INSURGENCY Examining Maoist Insurrection

Thursday, October 5, 2017

For Uprising 2/13, the CCCCT is curating a festival of Mao that will culminate in the second seminar on October 5th at 6:15pm with Claire Fontaine, Claudia Pozzana, and Alessandro Russo, moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt, Jeremy Kessler, and Jesús Velasco. A Reader's Companion to the readings for the seminar is available, as are all the readings. We will be focusing the discussion on Mao's thought and writings about insurgency and the Cultural Revolution, as well as his influence and legacy on the 1960s and 70s, and contemporary uptakes of his thought today. The purpose of this seminar series is to explore various modalities of uprising, disobedience, inservitude, revolt, or other forms of political contestation. Instead of including them all under the name of “revolution”—a term that has become conceptually and historically fraught—the seminar will consider how specific experiences and discourses articulate new forms of upheaval or reformulate well-known ones. By focusing on this conceptual, historical and political problematic, we intend to shine a light on experiences and manifestations that take place at the local and at the global level, as well as at the subjective and the collective level. The idea is to articulate how critical political practice is expressed and understood today.