Upcoming events (2025):
January 8: “Cracking the Iron Ceiling: On Ethnography as Theory,” Ethnography Workshop, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
January 30: “Absorbed in Struggle: South Africa’s Passive Revolution from Below,” Seminar for Comparative Social Analysis, Department of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
May 8: “Black Consciousness: Confronting Authoritarian Capitalism in Apartheid South Africa,” Labor and Democracy Conference, City University of New York, New York, NY
May 30: “Race, Class, and the Politics of Liberation in South Africa,” The Great Transition, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada
June 27: “No Simple Unity,” Historical Materialism, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
August 7: “Communists and Black Liberation Movements,” Comparative-Historical Sociology Mini-Conference, American Sociological Association 120th Annual Meeting, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
August 8: “Blackness as a Movement Strategy in Apartheid South Africa,” Collective Behavior and Social Movements Mini-Conference, American Sociological Association 120th Annual Meeting, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, IL
August 10: Author Meets Critics on Delivery as Dispossession with Mary Pattillo (Northwestern), Andy Clarno (University of Illinois-Chicago), and Monica Prasad (Johns Hopkins), American Sociological Association 120th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
September 26: “Doing Theoretical Ethnography,” with Josh Seim, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
October 6: “Blackness as Movement Strategy in Apartheid South Africa,” Black Intellectual Praxes Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
November 7: “Blackness as Movement Strategy in Apartheid South Africa,” Historical Materialism 22nd Annual Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
November 21: “Blackness as Movement Strategy in Apartheid South Africa,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
November 22: “On Michael Hardt,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL