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Climate Crisis and Writing in the Anthropocene
No full textAmerica faces a crisis it shares with the rest of the world: the ecological crisis of accelerating climate change caused by human activity in the Anthropocene. I interviewed renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson who has been thinking about possible ways to address global warming for decades. His work, which comprises novels like Ministry of the Future, New York 2140, and the Mars trilogy, prominently engages with late capitalism, ecological crises and how complex systemic problems might be addressed through existing technologies and regulatory mechanisms that are already within reach. Though his novels feature darkly cataclysmic moments, his writing does not predominantly dwell on the dystopian but is remarkable for a distinct utopian impulse and a pragmatic search for technoscientific solutions
Amartya Sen on Economics and Philosophy
No full textRemarks prepared by Kotaro Suzumura to introduce Professor Amartya Sen, the keynote speaker at the Third Biennial Literature and Law Conference held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on March 29th, 2012
A Cold Civil War?
No full textOn February 1, 2022, the American Library in Paris launched its Black History Month program with a conversation between two well-known figures in France’s international Black community.
Pap Ndiaye is a historian of French and Senegalese descent. As a professor at Sciences Po, he popularized the study of race and identity in French academia, most notably with his book La Condition noire. In 2021, he was appointed director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris.
Jake Lamar is an African American writer who has lived in Paris since 1993. He is the prize-winning author of a memoir, seven novels and a play and teaches creative writing at Sciences Po. What follows are edited excerpts of their exchange
The Law and Literature Partnership of Albion W. Tourgée and Samuel F. Phillips
No full textThe best way to explore the confluence of law and literature from ratification of the Reconstruction amendments to Plessy is to focus on the career of a little known figure, the lawyer-novelist Albion W. Tourgée, and his relationship to Samuel Phillips, a lawyer who would become the second Solicitor General of the United States. This essay traces their efforts to achieve some semblance of racial justice in the post bellum South, and how eventually these two came to defend Homer Plessy in the infamous Plessy v Ferguson case (which established the separate but equal doctrine). In examining Plessy, this essay reveals how the structure of that defense could be traced to Tourgée's fiction, and how their defense, and its echoes, which extend to Brown v Board of Education and beyond, help to prove the old adage that truth often proves to be stranger than fiction
Conversations Shaping the Fundamental Rights of Privacy
No full textThe conversations among Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four, the US Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones, and the New York Times compellingly illustrate the ways “law feeds and is fed by the world around it,” as Judge Guido Calabresi once put it. A suspected drug dealer, Antoine Jones was convicted and sentenced to life in prison at trial, but the case was overturned on appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court had to decide whether using a GPS tracking unit on the suspect’s vehicle violated Jones’ constitutional rights. Both lawyers and judges spoke often about whether this surveillance technique brought the U.S. closer to a state akin to the one in Nineteen Eight-Four. The New York Times covered this story, adding media sensationalism to the events. This article explores the legal development of privacy and surveillance at a specific historical moment, as it relates to both Orwell’s text, and the media at the nexus of privacy. One of the main issues was whether a U.S. citizen might reasonably expect a GPS tracking unit to trace their every movement, and exactly where that reasonable expectation of privacy ends. We see that technology has far outstripped even what Orwell envisioned in his dystopian masterpiece, and that only conscious resistance and legal protection can reverse what has often and ironically become a “voluntary” surrendering of the right to privacy
Activism and Civil Society
No full textOn November 26, 2021, Lecia Brooks, the Chief of Staff and Culture of the Southern Poverty Law Center, visited Göttingen on a lecture tour initiated by the Georg-August-Universität and sponsored, in large part, by the United States Embassy. I interviewed Brooks before her talk. What follows is a condensed version of our conversation, edited and reorganized for readability
Bodies in the Americas: Subjectivities and Identifications in Times of Polarization
No full textFansín Heliográfica is a research collective whose production revolves around gender and corporeality studies. The group's work is presented in a collective fanzine, using the heliographic technique, which is also a great visual essay. This article suggests understanding the fanzine as a visual essay and also as an instrument of research. To support this approach, I will bring into dialogue concepts deriving from Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's Sociology of the Image, the open cartography proposed by Aby Warburg in his Atlas Mnemosyne, and Gender Theory. I will analyze also the content of the two publications of the Fansín Heliográfica (Brujas, 2018, and Buen aprovecho, 2019), as well as its research methodology and production.Fansín Heliográfica es un colectivo de investigación cuya producción gira en torno a los estudios de género y de corporalidad. La obra del grupo se materializa, mediante la técnica heliográfica, en un fanzine colectivo que a su vez es un gran ensayo visual. El presente artículo propone comprender el fanzine como un ensayo visual y a éste como un instrumento de investigación. Para apoyar esta propuesta pondré en diálogo conceptos provenientes de la Sociología de la imagen de Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, de la cartografía abierta planteada por Aby Warburg en su Atlas Mnemosyne, y de la Teoría de género. Analizaré tanto el contenido de las dos publicaciones del Fansín Heliográfica (Brujas, 2018, y Buen aprovecho, 2019), como su metodología de investigación y construcción.An English version of the article, translated by Elizaveta Shkredova, is included in this document
British and Continental Approaches to Intellectual History
No full texthttps://www.ghil.ac.uk/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/bulletin/GHIL_Bulletin_44_2/16._From_Cambridge_to_Bielefeld_and_Back_Conference_Report.pd
