Media Appearances, Events, and Lectures
Interview regarding ASA Boycott on Shalom TV (Jan 2014)
Is Higher Education a Business? Stanford Grad School of Ed (video)
Presentation and panel discussion I did for Education's Digital Future, October 2013, with Jonathan Fieber, Mohr Davdison and D School; Amin Saberi, Founder, NovoED; Linda Thor, Chancellor, Foothill/DeAnza College District. Organized and Moderated by Mitchell...
Keynote Address, Am Comp Lit Assn Toronto 2013, Video
Community-based Learning at the International Hotel
These photos were taken during the service learning courses I did on the issues surrounding the famous fight against the eviction of poor, elderly Filipinos from the International Hotel in the 1970s. You can read about that in my article, "Embedded Lives," in the...
Reterritorializing Asia Pacific (Democracy Now!) 2003 [posted 2012]
In April 2003 I gave a talk at event that included Jonathan Schell, Luis Francia, Jack Tchen and others at New York University School of Law. The speakers were asked to consider how the War on Terror drew in the Asia Pacific region. My talk was picked up by Amy...
Panel on Multiculturalism in Europe, Paris UNESCO, July 2012
In July I convened a special session panel for the international "Cultural Studies Crossroads" event in Paris. Joining me were Etienne Balibar, Fatima El-Tayeb, and Paul Gilroy. For some thoughts on the connection between multiculturalism in Europe, affirmative...
Discussant for Immanuel Wallerstein, lecture at UC Santa Cruz, May 15, 2012.
In March 2012 I served as the discussant for Immanuel Wallerstein's lecture at UC Santa Cruz. In his talk, he addressed the current large-scale financial crisis of the early 21st century in the context of world-systems analysis. In my portion of the event, I asked...
Discussion with Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige
On March 1, 2012, I had the immense honor of speaking on a panel with the legendary activist Grace Lee Boggs and her collaborator, Professor Scott Kurashige on their new book, The Next American Revolution. The discussion ranged from grassroots organizing, her...
Discussion with Saskia Sassen
In May 2012 I served as the discussant for a lecture by Saskia Sassen on "Expulsion". The talk was a powerful analysis of the sub-prime crisis in the North and the debt-servicing economies of the Global South. I will post a blog on this soon.
Comparative Literature and the Unworlding of the Human Sciences, Morocco
In March 2012 the new Program in Comparative Literature at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco held its first international conference. The papers ranged across many subjects, each engaging with critical issues in the study of literature, with the specific...