Events
Cosponsors
- The Humanities Initiative and the Department of Comparative Literature (NYU)
- The New School for Social Research
- The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
Organizers
- Adi Ophir
- Ann Stoler
- Hagar Kotef
- Jacques Lezra
Political Concepts is a multidisciplinary project and annual conference that seeks to be a forum for engaged scholarship, conversation, and constructive debate rather than the construction of an encyclopedic ideal. Each lexical entry focuses on a single concept in the field of political discourse and aims to address what has remained unquestioned or un-thought in that concept. Our aim is to expand the scope of what demands political accounting, and for this reason we welcome essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as politically significant. It is our view that “politics” refers to the multiplicity of forces, structures, problems, and orientations that shape our collective life. Politics enters the frame wherever our lives together are staked and whenever collective action could make a difference to the outcome.
The conference was co-sponsored by The Humanities Initiative and the Department of Comparative Literature (NYU); The New School for Social Research; The Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University; and The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University.
Participants
- Yves Winter Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Minnesota
- Roy Wagner Professor of Anthropology University of Virginia
- Avital Ronell Professor of German, Comparative Literature, English; Acting Chair of Comparative Literature New York University
- Nitzan Lebovic Assistant Professor of History Lehigh University
- Ben Kafka Associate Professor of Media Theory and History New York University
- Emily Apter Professor of French and Comparative Literature New York University
- Stathis Gourgouris Professor Columbia University
- Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Minnesota