Public Things After Trump: Truth and Reckoning
via Zoom - Registration RequiredWas Trump the nadir we needed? If he is not re-elected, what are the kinds of public things that could usefully provide conceptual and political off-ramps to (re)build democratic institutions after Trump? Please see website for details.
Past Answers to Current Concerns: Lessons from the past? Terms of the Debate and Some Examples
via Zoom - Registration RequiredThe Climate Change and History Research Initiative, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies, and with the support of the Humanities Council, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” The presentations are open to the public. […]
The Clandestine Hands of the State: The Relational Dynamics of Police Collusion in Drug Markets
via ZoomMost research on the inner workings of the modern state focuses on its legal and public interventions. Far less analytic attention has been paid to the clandestine actions and interactions of state actors. Drawing on an original legal archive of court cases in Argentina, including hundreds of pages of wiretapped communications, and on ethnographic fieldwork […]
