Political Concepts at Brown: A Critical Lexicon in the Making

The goal of Political Concepts is to serve as a platform for revising, inventing, and experimenting with concepts while exploring the political dimension of their use and dissemination. Participants operate under the assumption that our era urgently needs a revised political lexicon that would help us better understand the world in which we live and act, and that the humanities at large can and should contribute toward such a revision. In the past, some of the participants revised key political concepts while others showed the political work done by terms and common nouns that are not usually considered “political.”

The 2017–2018 conference was dedicated to analyzing and contesting the transformation of the American political system under the presidency of Donald Trump.

Moderator:
Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor of Political Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Presenters:
Uchronia – Claire Brault, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Brown University (speaker chose not to have her talk filmed)
Water – Françoise Vergès, Chair of Global South(s), Collège d'études mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme, and Visiting Professor, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University

Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
Brown University