Fall 2017

6/13 | REVOLT: FOUCAULT IN IRAN

4/13 | #BLACKLIVESMATTER

3/13 | UPRISING

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.

1/13 | THE MODERN CONCEPT OF REVOLUTION  

5/13 | SATYAGRAHA