Events
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Beyond Property-Owning Democracy: Financialization, Private Property, and Democratic Citizenship
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for Global Ethics and Politics is excited to welcome political theorist Kyong-Min Son as our final colloquium speaker of Spring 2025. This lecture is co-sponsored with the Graduate Center's Political Theory Workshop. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker. This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual
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Protests as World-Making Projects
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for Global Ethics and Politics is excited to welcome philosopher Lidal Dror as our first colloquium speaker of Fall 2025. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker. This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and snacks.
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Coloniality of Power meets Dependency Theory: Developmentalism, Marginality, and Marx’s Commune in Quijano’s Socialization of Power
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesInés Valdez
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Spontaneous Freedom
Jonathan Gingerich
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Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Alyssa Battistoni
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Conceptualizing Discrimination as Systemic and Structural: Lessons from the Permanent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan and CEDAW
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesSophia Moreau
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Extractivism and Environmental Justice
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesOmar Dahbour
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Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None
Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesChiara Cordelli
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Jordan Pascoe
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How promising is the idea of a universal basic income? A skeptical view
Abstract: In recent years, many authors have suggested that a generous basic income should become the center of progressive policy aspirations. The paper argues that this political orientation is a mistake. A basic income has at most a minor and supporting role to play in a social vision that is fit to guide the transformation