Modern Critical Theory Lectures Fall 2023

For Fall 2023, the Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series featured the following speakers.

• 9/5 Liat Ben-Moshe “Decarcerating Disability: Prison Abolition and Deinstitutionalization” (Criminology, Law and Justice, UIC)

• 9/12 Craig Koslofsky “Skin and Epidermalization” (History, UIUC)

• 9/19 Mónica Jiménez “Toward a Legal Genealogy of Racial Exclusion: Law and the Making off Puerto Rico” (History, UT Austin)

• 9/26 Helmut Puff “Architectures of Waiting: The Time of the Antechamber” (History, Michigan)

• 10/3 Shirl Yang “A Labor Theory of Suspense” (English, Wash U)

• 10/10 Shelley Weinberg "Descartes and Locke on the Certainty of Knowledge" (Philosophy, UIUC)

• 10/17 Tamara Chaplin “Queering French History” (History, UIUC)

• 10/24 Ned O'Gorman "Arendt and the Question of Technology" (Communication, UIUC)

• 10/31 Penelope Deutscher “Revocability, Exception, Disqualifying Qualification: Grammars of Power After Foucault and Roe” (Philosophy, Northwestern)

• 11/7 Ramón Soto-Crespo “Environmental Humanities and the Caribbean” (English, UIUC)

• 11/14 Bob Markley “Problems in Theorizing the Origins of Capitalism” (English, UIUC)

• 11/28 AbdouMaliq Simone “Non-arrival: The Spiritual Dispositions of the Urban Surrounds” (Urban Institute, University of Sheffield)