Social Text collective member José Muñoz will be among the presenters at this state of the field conference on performance, to be held July 8th - 10th, 2010, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Click here for the full conference program. >>

Social Text collective member Lisa Duggan is among the speakers at this conference to be held 24-26 June, 2010 at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire, according to it's organizers, will "explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy." Read the full conference statement and get more details here. >>

The Middle Passage has long been a trope for unspeakable terror. But a recent generation of scholars has been keen on discerning how the Middle Passage as social experience defined lives, histories and contemporary social selves. This event brings together some of the most prominent writers on the subject to present papers and participate in discussion. May 6-7, 2010 at the Graduate Center, CUNY. 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City. >>

Please join the collective Friday April 30th in celebrating the publication of Social Text 102, a special issue on "The Politics of Recorded Sound," guest edited by Gustavus Stadler. >>

Dear ST Collective Friends, Please join Ed Cohen and David L. Eng, authors of A Body Worth Defending and A Feeling of Kinship for a joint book party on Sunday, 18 April 2010 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop. >>

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics invites you to celebrate publication of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era by Heather Gautney. >>

Who are The Regents of the University of California? What is their role within this recent crisis and the entire UC system? Meet the Regents is an exhibit that raises these questions. More here. >>

Those in the London area over the next two months may want to check out this seven-week long series of artist residencies on the theme of art, action and activism at the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston. >>

Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2010 is "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination." Find out more information, propose a panel, or register for the forum here. >>

December 1st 2009, Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY (34th Street & 5th Avenue)The CUNY Provost's Annual Symposium on Disciplinarity brings together scholars in the humanities who examine disciplinary boundaries, canonical divides, and methodological limitations and anxieties to introduce fresh and innovative thinking in the academy and beyond. The inaugural featured speaker is Hazel Carby, the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization at Yale University. Her books include Reconstructing Womanhood, Race Men,and Cultures in Babylon. Her current work in progress is Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post WWII Britain. For the inaugural lecture, respondents... >>