The Ph.D. Program in History

at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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March 15 & 16 The Committee on Globalization and Social Change: Political Concepts Conference

Please join us for the 2018 Spring Political Concepts gathering, hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization and Social Change.

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. This gathering of Political Concepts will be hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Since 2010, along parallel lines, this group has spent successive years critically reconsidering and reworking foundational concepts in an effort to more adequately grasp the global political present and to envision alternative political futures.

This event will be live-streamed. Please see our website for more information
globalization.gc.cuny.edu/events/political-concepts