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What Are Cities Made of?  Agrarian Transition and the Latin American Boom 4-530 EST, in English Drawing from her forthcoming book, titled Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (Verso, 2026), this talk examines how a set of experimental 1960s novels plotted the massive, epoch-making agrarian transitions that created the modern Latin… Read more

With translator Brian Whitener 7-8pm EST Please join us at a book launch for the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism just out from Duke University Press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-of-capitalism “Framed by brilliant readings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism… Read more

Communal Hypothesis Annual Symposium 830am-1pm EST Please join the Communal Hypothesis Research Group for our annual symposium which will take place April 3 at the University at Buffalo. The morning sessions are open to the public, while the afternoon roundtable is for members of the research group only. April 3, Grenier Hall 216 8:00-8:30am: coffee… Read more

“We Are Like Oil: Culture, Nature, and Modernity in Venezuela” 4-530 EST, in English While the 1970s are remembered as a decade of energy crisis, in Venezuela they were a period of extraordinary abundance that redefined the nation’s economy, culture, and relation to the environment. Oil became at once a blessing and a curse, driving… Read more

“Alebrijes anárquicos. Anarquismo, praxis anticolonial y autonomía en América Latina” 6-730pm EST, en español Durante la plática me concentraré en mostrar los acercamientos entre el anarquismo entendido como una teoría política y práctica social y las prácticas anárquicas de los pueblos entre los cuales destacan especialmente las llamadas comunidades indígenas. Por prácticas anárquicas de los pueblos y sectores… Read more