As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, this episode explores the significance of apocalyptic and dystopian narratives for our current crisis-laden moment. While typically associated with large-scale death and destruction, the word ‘apocalypse’ also means a revelation or uncovering of what was hidden in plain sight. Joined by noted science and speculative fiction and film scholars…
Category: S&S Shows
In a Time of Pandemics, What Are We Watching? And Why? July 16, 2020
S&S’s second social hour explores what we are watching and/or reading these days and attempts to tease out the ‘whys.’ Other than the persistently grim march of the news, what kinds of media and narratives have we been drawn to lately? Whether it’s escapist fantasies or pandemic-themed movies, are we looking for solace, distraction, frisson,…
What Must Fall, What Must Be Built – Demita Frazier, Ross Caputi, & Suren Moodliar, July 9, 2020
Join Demita Frazier, Ross Caputi, and Suren Moodliar in a conversation with Shelter & Solidarity: A Deep Dive with Artists and Activists host Joe Ramsey about monuments and public art in a moment of rebellion. After the event, the video will be posted here.
Police, Race, Labor & the Left with Cedric Johnson and Clare Hammonds, July 2, 2020
Nationally renowned scholar Cedric Johnson (author of the forthcoming book on Race, Policing and Anti-Capitalist Politics) joins us for a deep dive discussion into what comes next following the recent uprisings against police violence, and the broader state of Left politics in the US. We will also be joined by labor scholar and activist Clare…
The Anti-Racist University? Race, Class & Contingency in Higher Education, June 25, 2020
Join our discussion of the contradictions of anti-racist work in the University, with a particular focus on race, class, and contingency. The panel will address the place institutions of higher education occupy in our racialized class society, assess the official “anti-racist” strategies universities promote, and highlight the anti-racist work of on- and off-campus activism within…
Love and Struggle Know No Bars: Prisoners and Families Speak Out, June 18, 2020
Join us for Shelter and Solidarity #11 as we co-host a discussion about resisting the system of mass incarceration with members of the New York-based frontline organization Its Up to Us to End Mass Incarceration. We will be joined by IUTU organizer Michael Nugent as well as Tydina Brown and Nicole James, family members of…
Poets of the Rebellion, June 11, 2020
Join us for performances from Lorraine Currelley, Bronx Beat Poet Laureate & Activist, as well as Raymond Nat Turner, members of the Harlem Poets Guild, and North Carolina-based poet-critic-activist Demetrius Noble. w/ co-hosts Joe Ramsey and Tim Sheard.
Threats to Democracy with August Nimtz and Bill Fletcher, June 4, 2020
As the frontline communities and others of good conscience grieve and revolt, the US’s democratic trappings yield to its iron fist core. What are must be done to re-energize the long revolution against slavery and capitalism and for democracy and freedom? Long-time radical intellectual and pan-Africanist, Bill Fletcher and the Marxist activist-scholar August Nimtz join…
Contingent Faculty Struggles, May 28, 2020
COVID-19 has exposed the brittle core of higher education today: super-exploited academic workers going by dozens of titles–temporary, part-timer, adjunct, visiting, precarious, etc.–all meaning “contingent” i.e. workers who provide most of the teaching but who receive few benefits and next to no job security. It has also raised sharply the question of the university’s relationship…
Public Institutions Under Attack: Threats to the Common Good, May 21, 2020
A conversation about the government and corporate class campaigns to use the COVID moment to privatize or destroy our most critical public services: The US Postal Service, public K-12, and higher education, public hospitals, the Veterans Affairs health services, and more. We are joined by postal worker organizer, Charles Zlatkin, New York Labor Communications Council,…