Intellectual Publics

"The transnational insurgencies [Mohanty] advocates demand a future free of racism, transphobia, and the fascism that threatens us all.” - Angela Y. Davis

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"Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.... A vital and visionary contribution.”
- Sara Ahmed
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
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Ronald Radano and Anthony Reed will discuss Radano's new book, Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory
Monday, October 27, 2025
6:30-8pm ET online
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Cover of At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Darren Mueller. Cover text is in black and white over a photo of Duke Ellington, with a cigarette in his mouth, sitting at a piano. Billy Strayhorn stands next to him, looking down. A microphone hangs over them.

Congratulations to Darren Mueller, whose book "At the Vanguard of Vinyl" has been named the winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, given by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. www.dukeupress.edu/at-the-vangu...

“...[Alive in the Sound] upends settled wisdom around African American music and presents a new historical and critical model for its development.” - George E. Lewis

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Join us for a discussion of Radano’s new book which traces the long history of Black music in the U.S., jazz in particular, to demonstrate how its sense of aliveness always evades capture by capital and those who wish to appropriate its value.

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Ronald Radano and Anthony Reed will discuss Radano's new book, Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory
Monday, October 27, 2025
6:30-8pm ET online
Register: bit.ly/alive_in_the...

If you missed our September talk, you can find it on YouTube. David Eng in conversation with Joan Scott and Michelle Stephens about the historical, legal, and psychoanalytic concerns that shaped his new book, Reparations and the Human.
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Ronald Radano will discuss his new book, Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory, with Anthony Reed.
Monday, Oct 27th at 6:30pm ET
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Pls join us next Monday for our first talk of Fall 2025!
David Eng will discuss his new book, Reparations and the Human, with Joan Scott and Michelle Stephens.
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We are thrilled to host David Eng, Joan Scott, and Michelle Stephens for our first talk of 2025-26! They'll discuss Eng's latest book, Reparations and the Human. Pls join us!
Monday, Sep 15th at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center Writing in Impossible Times: Thinking With and Beyond the First Book.

If you missed our last talk of the 2024-25 academic year, you can find it on our YouTube channel: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris discussing the vital need for academic writing and publishing in impossible times!
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Watch Brian Massumi and Kathleen Stewart discussing "The Personality of Power."

"One of the best reasons to re-think what fascism is as a kind of unleashed regime of reaction is to be able to diagnose it in ourselves in order to short circuit it."

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Tonight at 6:30pm ET | Online
Writing in Impossible Times: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris will discuss how to navigate the changing scholarly publishing landscape.
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Bring your questions about writing and publishing!
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Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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Join us for our last talk of the spring term!
WRITING IN IMPOSSIBLE TIMES:
THINKING WITH AND BEYOND THE FIRST BOOK
Ken Wissoker in discussion with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET
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While you're anxiously awaiting the opening of Superfine at The Met, watch Black Dandyism Revisited, where Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis discuss Miller's, Slaves to Fashion, the cornerstone of the Costume Institute's highly anticipated spring show.
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Mar 31 @ 6:30 PM via Zoom

"Massumi’s theorizations of the treacherous times we inhabit offers both a compelling account of new machines of rule and desperately needed glimmers of the anti-fascist forms of life that can and must oppose them.” - Jack Halberstam

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Join us for our next online talk! Brian Massumi and Kathleen Stewart discuss Massumi's forthcoming, The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life
Monday March 31 @ 6:30pm ET via zoom
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Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis will discuss Slaves to Fashion, Miller’s influential study of the Black dandy and the inspiration behind the upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, Superfine.
Free and open to all
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Remember to register for next Monday's online talk!
Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis revisit Miller's Slaves to Fashion
March 10 at 6:30pm ET
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I’ll be #Duke in conversation with @markanthonyneal.bsky.social and Juan Otero Garabís about Made in NuYoRico on March 19, hosted by the Latino Studies Program 🎶🎊🪘

Our inaugural bsky post!!
Our first talk of the spring semester:
Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis revisit Black dandyism
March 10 | 6:30pm ET | Zoom | Link in bio