April 17
Vanessa Ogle, University of California, UC-Berkeley
“’Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
April 24
Ahmed Kanna, University of the Pacific
“De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing Back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
May 1
Nidhi Mahajan, UC-Santa Cruz
“Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
May 8
Banu Bargu, UC-Santa Cruz
“Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism”
May 15:
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
“‘’I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
May 22
Shadi Rohana, Colegio de México
“Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in Translation”
May 29
Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland
“Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
