“On Violence: Fall 2024 Experimental Study Sequence”

Part of the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society

Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice (New York: Fordham UP, 2023)

Damien Sojoyner

Associate Professor, Anthropology

School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine 

Join us for a sequence of live online conversations with authors of key texts addressing violence, empire, liberation, solidarity, abolition, and the problem of “Man”/human. These short (60-80 minute) sessions will be led by students of MCS 201 (Racial-Colonial [State] Violence) at UC Riverside, taught by Prof. Dylan Rodríguez. Online participants will have opportunities to engage with authors during the sessions, to whatever extent time permits. This is an experiment. We hope you will read the authors’ work prior to each study meeting, but as importantly, we aspire to cultivate a sense of intellectual collaboration, curiosity, and activated thought. Participation is free and open to the public.

Schedule of conversations (all will take place between 3:30-4:50 p.m. PST)

Oct 21
Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Durham: Duke UP, 2021)

Oct 28
Cristina Visperas, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (NYU Press, 2022)

Nov 4
Shana Redmond, Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Durham: Duke UP, 2020)

Nov 18
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2016)

Nov 25
H. L. T. Quan, Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living (London: Pluto Press, 2024)

Dec 2
Damien Sojoyner, Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice (New York: Fordham UP, 2023)

Join Stream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88006194308