Conjuncture

Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Ayyaz Mallick about Gramsci, Fanon, and challenges for movements in Pakistan, Palestine, and the Global South. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. 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. Ayyaz Mallick is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Liverpool. His writing appears in influential venues like Antipode, Historical Materialism, Studies in Political Economy, and Urban Geography. He writes for newspapers and popular venues such as Jacobin and Novara Media. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

In this special episode, co-host Christina Heatherton moderates a conversation between historians Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh about their work on racism, capital, and punishment. This episode was co-produced with the Howard Zinn Book Fair. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. 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. Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Peter Linebaugh is a historian and the author of The Magna Carta Manifesto; The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day; and Stop, Thief!, among many others, and the co-author, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra.

Christina Heatherton speaks with Jordan T. Camp about Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, conjunctural analysis, and the politics of the present. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. 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. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with law professor John Whitlow about conjunctural analysis, the law, Trumpism, and housing struggles in neoliberal New York City. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. 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. John Whitlow is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York School of Law, where he teaches primarily in the Community & Economic Development (CED) Clinic. He is currently a Senior Fellow at New York University Law School’s Initiative for Community Power, and serves on the board of directors of The Action Lab. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with award-winning musician Leyla McCalla about her work on New Orleans, Haiti, capitalism, and her most recent album, 'Breaking the Thermometer,' out now on ANTI- Records.

Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. 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. 

Leyla McCalla is an award-winning musician and singer-songwriter. A member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops as well as the band Our Native Daughters, McCalla has also produced four solo albums of her own: 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' (2014), 'A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey' (2016), 'Capitalist Blues' (2019), and, most recently, 'Breaking the Thermometer' (2022). 

Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with Zachary Levenson about his new book, Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City (Oxford University 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. Zachary Levenson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida International University in the United States and a Senior Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

For this special May Day episode of Conjuncture, we air one of Mike Davis' final public talks, a reading from his unfinished manuscript, Star Spangled Leviathan: An Economic History of American Nationalism. The talk was originally recorded for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative on May Day in 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. Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a preeminent writer, editor, activist, and radical public intellectual. He was the author more than 20 influential books, including City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso) and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Verso) with Jon Wiener.

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.

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.  

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 intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

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.  

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 intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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

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.

In this new episode, 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.  

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 intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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.   Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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.

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 intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

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. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.   

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.    

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

In this new 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.   

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. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.   

Michael Denning is William R. Kenan, Jr. 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.   

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

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

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. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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.

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

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.   

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. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

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.   

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

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

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. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the 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.  

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

In the first episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is political theorist Anthony Bogues, who discusses his research on the Black radical intellectual tradition and its distinctive critique of the present.

Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton through 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 intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the day.

Anthony Bogues is Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.