Featuring:
Robert Meister (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Respondents:
Nina Boy (Research Fellow, University of Warwick)
Jonathan Ira Levy (History, University of Chicago)
Timothy Mitchell (Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies, Columbia University)
Convener:
Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
Free and open to the public. On Zoom.
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