May 4, 2012, 5:00pm | The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. On the occasion of the publication of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death, join an international panel of distinguished critical theorists, first convened at the Graduate Center in 2006, to discuss the value of the concept of biopolitics in addressing issues of governance and economy from the latter decades of the twentieth century to current geopolitical conditions of life and death. >>

This Tuesday is May Day. It's going to be an amazing day around New York. From art and music in the streets, to a free university in Madison Square Park with lectures by David Harvey and others, to a "guitarmy" over 1000 strong with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello leading the way, to a Brooklyn high school strike in Fort Greene park, to an unprecedented coalition of immigrant justice, unions, and occupy groups marching together, we have injustices to decry and our own power to celebrate. Click here for a list of events. >>

China is everywhere in the news for its astounding economic development and its equally astonishing human rights abuses. Beginning with this curiously inverse relationship between economic success and political rights and freedom, the relationship of China and the human begs to be explored. Bringing together editors and contributors to Social Text's newly published double issue on "China and the Human" this interdisciplinary symposium seeks to question the self-evident nature of both "China" and "human" by examining the long career of the human in Chinese culture and thought, reaching back to ancient traditions and exploring the radical transformations under Maoism and in the current socialist-capitalist era. Join us for a series of panel discussions and conversations. >>

Opening Reception, 3/14, 3-6pm - Panel discussion on the militarization of the campus police, 3/14, 4:30-5:30pm - Exhibition opens 3/12 through 3/23/2012 >>

How can access to important research and scholarship be available to all, not just "the one percent"? On Tuesday, February 28, at 12:00 PM in Columbia University's Faculty House Presidential Rooms 2 & 3, join us for "Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012" to discuss how Occupy Wall Street, the Research Works Act (RWA), the boycott of Elsevier journals by a growing number of academics, and other recent developments are informing the debate over access to research and scholarship. The event is free and open to the public. >>

Five faculty from U.S. universities who recently completed a week-long visit to Occupied Palestine and Israel are calling on academic colleagues everywhere to support the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). >>

Come celebrate the launch of GLQ 18.1, "Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism", edited by Jordana Rosenberg and Amy Villarejo. This issue marks the end of the reign of the fantastic outgoing GLQ editors, Ann Cvetkovich and Annamarie Jagose, and the celebration of the work of our incoming editors, Elizabeth Freeman and Nayan Shah, who picked us up halfway through and added their own invaluable touches. Refresh yourself in the heart of winter by anticipating, with us, the spring to come. >>

The Collective is proud to announce the following recent publications by Social Text authors:

Sujatha Fernandes. Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation. New York: Verso, 2011.

Nicholas Mirzoeff. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Alondra Nelson. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Click here for more. >>

A Lecture by David L. Eng
September 28, Wednesday
6:30 to 8 pm

This presentation explores the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation. Reparation is a key term in political theory, but it is also a central concept in psychoanalysis (specifically object relations theory), yet the two are rarely discussed in relation to one another. In this talk, I will explore how political and psychic genealogies of reparation might supplement one another in theories of the human and discourses of human rights, while helping us to understand better the social and psychic limits of repairing war, violence, colonialism, and genocide. >>

Saher Shah, whose art is on the cover of Social Text #108, is having a solo exhibition at Scaramouche gallery in New York between now and October 30, 2011. From the gallery:Click here for more information. >>