Colloquium series
The Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT) colloquium series is an ongoing initiative run entirely by students from the program. The form and content of each event depends largely upon the organizers, volunteers, presenters and community members in attendance. Workshops, presentations and discussions are typically offered by both faculty and graduate students.
Anyone is welcome to attend. Contact the CSPT director or the colloquium organizer to learn about upcoming events.
Submissions
The Eat, Drink, Talk, Think! series is a comfortable and informal arena to test new ideas, flesh out current research or share completed research papers/thesis chapters with other graduate students.
Presentations can be between 15 and 40 minutes, depending on the number of presenters and style of presentations.
We welcome presentations of all types. This includes but is not limited to: formal academic-style presentations, panel discussions, group workshops, or anything creative, unusual or subversive. Work at any level of preparation will be considered.
Coordinator
Contact the colloquium coordinator to make a submission or get more information.
- Iman Fadaei (PhD, Sociology)
Archives
November 28, 2024
- Panch Rishi Dev Sharma, "Narratives and Pandemic Governance: A Historical and Theoretical Investigation"
- Luiz Henrique Reggi Pecora, "Cosmopolitan and Hybrid Identities in Settler Diasporas"
January 30, 2025
- Neve Sugars-Keen, "Engineering the Future: Geoengineering, Progress, and the New Spirit of Capitalism"
- Jonathan Nash, "Drawing the Diaspora: Palestinian Archives and their Social Imagination in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi"
February 27, 2025
- Iman Fadaei, "(Re)Calling Society: The Geography of Paradox"
- Cole Freeman, "Construction of the Social: Technology and Enframing"
- Tristan Zaborniak, "Mapping Complexity: Making of Sense of Society/Social"
March 27, 2025
- Thiti Jamkajornkeiat (he/him) "Radicalizing “Bandung” in Cairo: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the Renewal of Anticolonial Marxism"
- Jada Gannon-Day, "Extractive Imperialism and Colonial Domination"
November 30, 2023
- Frances Wear, "The Object that Therefore I am"
- Stephanie Erickson and Kara Hagedorn, "The Discontinued Doll: A Queer Reading of Reproductive Theory in Barbie (2023)"
January 25, 2024
- Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Decolonizing Money: Rhizomatic Currency and Self-Organizing Payment Networks
- Chibueze Ngozi, "Echoes from the Margins: Uncovering Power, Truth, and Justice in Biblical Silences"
March 28, 2024
- Elif Cansu Gümüşpala, "Exploring Huysuz Virjin's Performances within the Boundaries of Exclusion and Inclusion"
- Jonathan Nash, "Global Narrative Spaces of Engagement: Examining the Narrative Conventions of Canadian Refugee Fiction in The Boat People (2018) by Sharon Bala"
September 29, 2022
- Jonathan Nash, “Drawing Life in Limbo: Refugee Lifeworlds in Kate Evans' Threads: From the Refugee Crisis”
- Erin Chewter, “From Mastery to Care: Critical Theories against Colonial (Un)knowing”
October 27, 2022
- Kai McKenzie, “Decolonizing Positions in Two-Spirit and Transgender Coming of Age Novels”
- Kristen Lewis with dancers from the Gull Cry Dance Contemporary Performance Group: Arunima McLeish, Svetlana Tsebriy and Eloise Meredith, “Don’t Just Be a Good Soldier a.k.a. Bodies, Dance, and Normativity: How A Practice of Embodied Anatomy and Improvised Dance (can/might/does) Reveals Fertile Fissures in the (Often Covertly Delivered) Codes for Compulsory Performances of Normative Embodiment in the Neoliberal era”
November 24, 2022
- Brayden Blacklock, “Stepping Away from the Vehicle: The LETSystem, Complementarity, and Economic Alternatives”
- Frances Wear, “Organized Struggle: On Violence and Purposiveness in Schelling’s and Kant’s Organisms”
January 26, 2023
- Jamey Jesperson, “Historicizing Trans Death, Theorizing Trans Survival”
- Sangeev Thevananthan, “Tracing Necropolitics and the Neoliberal Imaginary in Two Contemporary Sri Lankan Novels”
March 2, 2023
- Hannah Eiserman, “Victorian Reprint Culture, Illustration, and the Construction of Girl’s Education in Atlanta: A Case Study”
- Elsie Hovey, “Rivers are Living Things: Placing Hugh MacLennan’s River Essays in Canadian Ecocriticism”
March 30, 2023
- Fatemeh Zarvasi, “Post-revolutionary Iranian Women’s Subjectivity and Agency: A Re-narration of Gender-based Violence”
- C. William Campbell, “The Lord’s Way might be Liberal Capitalism?”
Colloquium coordinators
- Erin Chewter (MA, Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Anthony J. Gavin (PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies)
November 26, 2020
- Luke Lavender, "How does Politics Begin? Understanding Performativity and Political Action Beyond the Limits of Political Community"
- Kristen Lewis and Jelena Markovic, "Entangled, Undone and Air: Embodied Poetics and Grief" (a short video and discussion)
December 17, 2020
- C. William Campbell, "… as exquisite a torment as the lake of fire and brimstone’: Rethinking Conceptions of Pain with Latter-day Saint Conceptions of Life"
- Callum McDonald, "Academic Self-Reflection: Spoken/Written for Posterity or Apocalypse?"
January 28, 2021
- Talya Jesperson, "Acousmatic AI Voices"
- Kristen Lewis, Kate Plyley and Mark Zion, "'To Go There, Without Knowing Where': The Lost Causa Reading Group as an Adisciplinary Undercommons"
March 25, 2021
- Anthony Gavin, Kristen Lewis, Janine Wulz and Mark Zion, "Critical Pedagogies for a Postliterate Age: Towards a Posthuman Humanities?" (Panel)