11/18/2024

The Stuart Hall Archive Project

In this episode, Jordan T. Camp discusses the Stuart Hall Archive Project (SHAP) with Nick Beech, SHAP Co-Lead at the University of Birmingham. They discuss the archives, previously unpublished material, and the relevance of Hall’s

10/20/2024

Racial Capitalism

Catherine Hall discusses the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, social reproduction, and her groundbreaking new book Lucky Valley.
07/08/2024

The Political Economy of Palestine

In this episode, Jordan T. Camp speaks with economist Ibrahim Shikaki about the political economy of Palestine, the economic impacts of prolonged occupation, and waves of protests against the war in Gaza in this turbulent
02/21/2023

History, Democracy, and the Vocation of the Black Intellectual: Challenges for Our Times

In the 1960s and 70s global anticolonial revolutionary thinkers were in open revolt against nationalist-driven racist attacks. Adjoining the major political campaigns of their day, they formed critical collaborative spaces of research, writing, and thinking.

Mission

The Trinity Social Justice Institute (TSJI) curates conversations in the public humanities. Through public lectures and conversations, a monthly webinar series, research clusters, conferences, and the creation of digital archives, we seek to contribute to public and scholarly debates about struggles for social justice in the United States and the world. We work in partnership with Prof. Davarian Baldwin’s Smart Cities Lab and alongside other groups on campus.

Conjuncture Podcast

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Nick Beech and Jordan T. Camp discuss the Stuart Hall Archive Project, previously unpublished material, and the relevance of Hall’s public intellectual praxis in the current conjuncture.

Nick Beech
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The Stuart Hall Archive Project

Catherine Hall discusses the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, social reproduction, and her groundbreaking new book Lucky Valley. 

  • S4 Ep1

Racial Capitalism

Jordan T. Camp speaks with economist Ibrahim Shikaki about the political economy of Palestine.

Ibrahim Shikaki
  • S3 Ep7

The Political Economy of Palestine

Gillian Hart interrogates the conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and situates Palestine/Israel and South African apartheid in a global comparative frame.

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  • S3 Ep6

South Africa and Palestine/Israel in a Global Frame

Initiatives

Investigating the historical relationships between racism, colonialism, and Indigeneity in the United States and the world.

Smart Cities LaB

The Trinity Social Justice Initiative (TSJI) engages research communities around a range of topics. Since its inception in Fall 2021, TSJI has established itself as an interdisciplinary research hub that supports projects investigating the relationships between racism, colonialism, capitalism, and social justice movements in the U.S. and the world.

Prof. Seth Markle

Research Clusters

Past Programing

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Jordan T. Camp was invited to the University of Birmingham by the Stuart Hall Archive Project to deliver a lecture on Stuart Hall and the relevance of conjunctural analysis for struggles against neo-fascism today.

Jordan T. Camp, Theorizing the Conjuncture
Invited presentations

Theorizing the Conjuncture: Stuart Hall, Translatability, and the Challenge of Neo-Fascism

Jordan T. Camp
June 7, 2024

“Archives Unbound” invites scholars who have worked directly with the Robinson archive to share their perspectives on the ongoing or completed research they were able to conduct as a result of working with archival material Elizabeth Robinson has made available to them.

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Curated Conversations 

Archives Unbound

Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Matthew Harris, and Joshua Myers, moderated by Utathya Chattopadhyaya and Stephanie Batiste
June 1, 2024

Jordan T. Camp sat down with Elizabeth Robinson to talk about media, Cedric J. Robinson, and the Black radical archive.

Curated Conversations 

Elizabeth Robinson on Media, Cedric J. Robinson, and the Black Radical Archive

Elizabeth Robinson
May 29, 2024

Extending the analysis from her book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, Heatherton will consider how war, nationalism, and revolutionary nostalgia have confounded the development of an internationalist consciousness.

Shadows Without Bodies
Invited presentations

Shadows Without Bodies: War, Revolutionary Nostalgia, and the Challenges of Internationalism

Christina Heatherton and Ayça Çubukçu
May 23, 2024