Fiori Berhane on the Mediterranean Sea as A Nowhere Space

We talk with Fiori Berhane about migration. Fiori Berhane is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Brown University. Berhane's research focuses on refugee's political activism as it pertains to local histories, diaspora and the migration crisis. Broadly, it asks how do refugees make political claims to belonging under conditions of protracted political and social crisis; this research is based on the experiences of third wave Eritrean diaspora in relation to the first wave diaspora in Bologna, Italy. 

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Katerina Kolozova on the Defeat of Liberalism (and what comes next)

We talk with Katerina Kolozova about imagining a new universalism. Katerina Kolozova Is Professor of political philosophy in Skopje and Belgrade, author of Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals (Bloomsbury Academic-UK, 2019) and Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2014).

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Arati Kreibich on Why She is Running For Congress

Arati Kreibich (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 5th Congressional District. Arati Kreibich is a neuroscientist, a mother, a grassroots organizer, an immigrant, and a local elected official. She is has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Ayanna Pressley, Working Families and The Sunrise Movement.

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Vincent Lloyd on Prison Abolition

Vincent Lloyd is associate professor of theology and religious studies and director of Africana studies at Villanova University. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of religion, race, and politics. His books include In Defense of Charisma (Columbia, 2018), Black Natural Law (Oxford, 2016), and a coedited volume, Race and Secularism in America (Columbia, 2016). Vincent Lloyd and Joshua Dubler co-authored Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (2019).

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Brooke Belisle on Google Earth Virtual Reality

Brooke Belisle researches and teaches the comparative history and theory of media aesthetics at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on the recurrent disruptions and possibilities of “new media”, exploring emergent formats and experimental practices that echo across different periods of technological and social transformation. She directs the Stony Brook working group in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology , is an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture , and has co-chaired the CinemArts group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.

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Joseph F Getzoff on Neoliberal Zionism

We speak with Joseph F Getzoff about start-up nationalism. Joseph F Getzoff has been in the University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Environment, and Society since 2011. He is currently a PhD candidate. He is also an adjunct instructor at Worcester State University. His field work centered on the Negev/Naqab Desert in Israel. As a cultural geographer, he critically studies the discourses and practices that link nationalism, environment, and development.

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Pauline Grosjean on Men

We speak with Pauline Grosjean about how economics can help us understand the origins of ‘masculinity norms’. Pauline Grosjean is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

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