Conjuncture – Trinity Social Justice Initiative

02/04/2023

Episode 5 (Season 2)

THE CARCERAL CONJUNCTURE IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA

Christina Heatherton speaks with Judah Schept about his new book, Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (NYU Press, 2022).

Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

Judah Schept is Professor of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Christina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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12/19/2022

Episode 4 (Season 2)

THE EMANCIPATION CIRCUIT

Jordan T. Camp speaks with Thulani Davis about her new book, The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (Duke, 2022), Black political thought, and the unfinished business of freedom struggles.

Thulani Davis is a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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11/02/2022

Episode 3 (Season 2)

MANUFACTURING A CAMPUS CULTURE WAR

Christina Heatherton speaks with Isaac Kamola about manufactured campus culture wars, the resurgence of the right, and the politics of intellectual work in the current conjuncture.

Isaac A. Kamola is Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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10/04/2022

Episode 2 (season 2)

MAKING INTERNATIONALISM

Jordan T. Camp interviews Christina Heatherton about the relationship between the internationalization of capital and the making of internationalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution.

Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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08/22/2022

Episode 1 (Season 2)

AGAINST PESSIMISM

Jordan T. Camp speaks with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the history of racial capitalism, the roots of fascism, and the freedom dreams of social movements to open season 2 of Conjuncture.

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of History at UCLA.

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06/06/2022

Episode 6

THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT

In this sixth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is Leniqueca A. Welcome. They discuss her ethnographic research in Trinidad, what she calls the “tyranny of the present,” and the possibilities of abolitionist politics today. Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals.

Leniqueca A. Welcome is an assistant professor of International and Urban Studies at Trinity College. Her work appears in influential venues such as Small Axe, American Anthropologist, Multimodality and Society, Inquiry, City and Society, as well as edited volumes including Sovereignty Unhinged (Duke, forthcoming). She is currently working on her first book, Come Out of This World: Beyond Terrains of Criminalization to Where Life is Precious.

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03/01/2022

Episode 5

POLITICS AS ORGANIZING

In the fifth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with cultural historian and theorist Michael Denning about his work, conjunctural interventions, and Antonio Gramsci’s legacy for politics today.

Michael Denning is Professor and Chair of American Studies, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Coordinator of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture at Yale University.

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02/17/2022

Episode 4

RACIAL CAPITALISM AND COUNTERINSURGENCY

In this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about his research on racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Arun Kundnani is an Associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a public intellectual. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (2014), The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (2007), and is currently completing a new book, Resistance is Not Enough: Radical Anti-Racism in a Neoliberal Age.

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01/22/2022

Episode 3

ANTONIO GRAMSCI AND SUBALTERN SOCIAL GROUPS

In this third episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with political theorist Marcus Green about Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups (Columbia University Press, 2021), the volume he co-edited with the late Joseph Buttigieg.

Marcus E. Green teaches Political Science at Pasadena City College and serves as secretary of the International Gramsci Society. He is the editor of Rethinking Gramsci (2011), and co-editor (with Joseph A. Buttigieg) of Antonio Gramsci’s Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebooks 25, published by Columbia University Press in 2021.

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01/06/2022

Episode 2

RESURGENT NATIONALISMS AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENT CONJUNCTURE

In this second episode of “Conjuncture,” Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Gillian Hart about resurgent nationalism and the challenges of the current conjuncture.

Gillian Hart is Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate School in Geography, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Graduate Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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THE CARCERAL CONJUNCTURE IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA

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THE EMANCIPATION CIRCUIT

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MANUFACTURING A CAMPUS CULTURE WAR

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MAKING INTERNATIONALISM

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AGAINST PESSIMISM

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THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT

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POLITICS AS ORGANIZING

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RACIAL CAPITALISM AND COUNTERINSURGENCY

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ANTONIO GRAMSCI AND SUBALTERN SOCIAL GROUPS

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RESURGENT NATIONALISMS AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENT CONJUNCTURE

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