On Thursday, April 23 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., The New School for Social Research faculty members Carlos Forment and George Steinmetz will convene a workshop to survey and make sense of the current state of postcolonial thinking. Scholars who are closely identified with this approach or whose work is attuned to some of its concerns will be presenting early drafts of work-in-progress on a broad range of topics.

Program:

Where is Postcolonial Thinking Today (10:00 to 11:30 a.m.)
• Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences and Columbia University), Lineages of Political Society
• Ann Stoler (NSSR), Beyond Sex: Bodily Exposure in the Colonial and Postcolonial Present

Traces of Postcolonialism in Academic Disciplines (11:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.)
• Craig Calhoun, (New York University and Social Science Research Council), TBA
• Lydia Liu (Columbia University), Lacan's Cybernetic Machine: How American Theory Became French Theory

Social Science and Empire (2:45 to 4:15 p.m.)
• George Steinmetz (NSSR), Scientific Autonomy, the German Social Scientists and Empire, 1880-1945
• Andreas Kalyvas (NSSR), Carl Schmitt and the Question of Imperial Sovereignty

Peripheral Peoples in Political Theory (4:15 to 5:45 p.m.)
• Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Franz Fanon’s Revolutionary Rhetoric
• Carlos Forment (NSSR and Universidad General de San Martin), Tocqueville, Modern Democracy and the Emergence of Colonial Regimes

This free event which is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and The New School for Social Research Dean's Office will take place at Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, mezzanine level.