Critical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London. Professor Gilroy's scholarship has been globally influential, especially his books There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack(1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), and Against Race (2000). In 2019 Professor Gilroy was awarded the Holberg Prize by the government of Norway in recognition of his scholarship. Che Gossett speaks with Professor Gilroy...
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Amy Tobin on Feminist Art History
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In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Amy Tobin, University of Cambridge Associate Professor in the History of Art and Curator of Contemporary Programmes, at Kettle’s Yard, about feminist art history, feminist art curation, coalitional politics and her book, (Yale UP, 2023), as well as her 2014 article, co-authored with Victorian Horne, "An unfinished revolution in art historiography, or how to write a feminist art history" in feminist review.
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The Antisocial and its Afterlives: Austin Svedjan and John Paul Ricco
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In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Austin Svedjan, doctoral student and Hamilton-Law Graduate Fellow in the Department of English at Penn, and John Paul Ricco, professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, about their co-edited special issue of the journal Postmodern Culture, which is freely available . Song credit: "If You Can't Help Me" by Brontez Purnell.
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Glorious Bodies And Early Modern Trans Studies with Professor Colby Gordon
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with scholar Colby Gordon, who is associate professor in Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, about early modern trans studies and theology, and his exciting new and first book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (University of Chicago, 2024). Song credit (-30sec): "My Enemies are Mine" by Jim Strong
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The Specter of Materialism: a Conversation with Petrus Liu
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Petrus Liu, who is professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Professor Liu is the author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015) and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus (Duke University Press, 2023), and other many other publications. Gossett speaks with Liu about how he sutures together queer theory, gender and sexuality studies and Marxist thought, and about...
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Touching Through the Archive: a Conversation with Zackary Drucker
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with multimedia artist, director, and producer Zackary Drucker about her archival work on and connection to Flawless Sabrina, about being attuned to the spiritual realm, and her prodigious work in TV & film -- especially her co-directed Sundance award-winning and Emmy nominated HBO original documentary film The Stroll (2023) and the HBO documentary series The Lady and the Dale (2021).
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Enforced In/Visibility: Beeta Baghoolizadeh on Racial Slavery and Historical Memory in Iran
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh. Dr. Baghoolizadeh is a historian and an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Gossett speaks with Dr. Baghoolizadeh about her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) and how Iranian and Persian Gulf social and political life have been both shaped by racial slavery and the disavowal of it's history, as well as the ways in which its afterlife reverberates now.
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Bad Education: Lee Edelman on the Fantasy of Social Order
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, about the continued resonance and influence his book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke UP, 2004) and about his newest work Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (Duke UP, 2022). Edelman discusses his theorization of queerness as a constitutive exclusion and form of negation, his work with the late Lauren Berlant, psychoanalysis, and the ways in which emotions and affects -- pessimism and utopianism and their interplay...
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The Risk it Takes to Bloom: a conversation with Raquel Willis
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with Black trans activist and writer Raquel Willis about Black trans liberationist movements, intersectionality, Black feminism(s), growing up in the South, and her new book, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation (St. Martin Press, 2023).
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Poems on Fire: Nava Mau on Finding the Language of Filmmaking
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with filmmaker, actress and cultural worker Nava Mau. Nava Mau recently received the 2024 Critics Choice Association's “Breakthrough Performance” Award for Television (Limited Series) for her role in the Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer. Nava Mau was the lead actor and director, and co-producer for the short film Waking Hour (2019), and starred in the HBO Max series Generation. Nava Mau also recently directed and starred in the short film All the Words But One (2024) which is showing at film festivals across the...
info_outlineThis episode offers an overview of the campaign for Penn to participate in a PILOT program with the city of Philadelphia. As a nonprofit, Penn is not required to pay property taxes, which provide a substantial part of the funding for the Philadelphia public school district. Members of Penn for PILOTs Mary Summers, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Amy Offner make the case for why Penn should make payments in lieu of taxes to fund public education in Philly.
Original Music by David Chavannes
For more information about the Alice Paul Center visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.edu
For more information on the campaign for PILOTs at Penn, check out pennforpilots.org
Additional sonic material excerpted from 6abc Action News, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, and Good morning America. Testimonies from Penn History professor Ann Farnsworth-Alvear and Central High School student Lin Lin are from the Committee Hearing on Children and Youth in March. Testimony from Education professor Gerald Campano comes from a Penn for PILOTs Update Session.