Lila Abu-Lughod will deliver the lecture "Security and the Political Geographies of Gender Violence" as a part of the Liberal Studies Department Global Lecture Series.

Tuesday, December 3, 5:30 p.m.

NYU Liberal Studies

Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center

31 Washington Place

In the course of the first two After Progress symposia it has become apparent that, rather than an idea to be criticised, “progress” names instead an entire array of capitalist, colonial and extractivist operations. It is a world-ploughing machine that suffuses the very modern mode of evaluation from which the values of global development, infinite growth, technological innovation, and salvage accumulation are derived. And it is one which simultaneously infuses and animates well-meaning dreams of cosmopolitan redemption, and stories of innocence and reconciliation.

Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human
October 23–December 23, 2019 

Centre Pompidou 
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris
France 

www.cosmopolis.centrepompidou.fr 

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