01/02/2026

Kim Kelly – Solidarity as Self-Defense

Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense
12/07/2025

David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism

Christina Heatherton speaks with historian David McNally about slavery, capitalism, and abolitionist struggles.
10/06/2025

Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography

Alex Loftus on climate crisis, right-wing populism, and "translating" Gramsci.
05/31/2025

Italy, the US, and Xenophobic Nationalism

In this episode Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Camilla Hawthorne about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy. Watch the episode on YouTube, or listen to it on Spotify and iTunes.

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. 

Conjuncture Podcast

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Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense
  • S5 Ep 3

Kim Kelly – Solidarity as Self-Defense

Christina Heatherton speaks with historian David McNally about slavery, capitalism, and abolitionist struggles.
  • S5 Ep 2

David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism

Alex Loftus on climate crisis, right-wing populism, and "translating" Gramsci.
  • S5 Ep 1

Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography

Camilla Hawthorne on racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy.
Camilla Hawthorne and Jordan T. Camp
  • S4 Ep6

Italy, the US, and Xenophobic Nationalism

Initiatives

The Trinity Social Justice Initiative curates conversations in the public humanities. Through public lectures and conversations, it seeks to contribute to public and scholarly debates about struggles for social justice in the United States and the world.

Programming

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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Benjamin Stumpf will join us to discuss the cultural, political, historical, and theoretical dimensions of the climate crisis, cop cities, and abolitionist alternatives in the aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion.
Public Lectures 

Policing the Climate: Cop Cities and Resistance in the Age of Ecological Crisis

Benjamin Stumpf (UConn)
April 8, 2025
4:15 pm
In this episode of Curating Conversations, Arun Kundnani speaks with Dansowaa Adu (Trinity College) on far right racism, anti-racist self-defense, Islamophobia, and the manufacture of what Samuel Huntington has called “the ideal enemy.”
Arun Kundnani
Curated Conversations 

The Ideal Enemy

Arun Kundnani and Dansowaa Adu (Trinity College)
March 11, 2025
Under martial law during World War II, Hawaiʻi was located at the intersection of home front and war front.
Settler Militarism cropped
Public Lectures 

Settler Militarism Book Salon

Juliet Nebolon in conversation with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Jodi Kim, and Momo Djebli, moderated by Christina Heatherton
March 4, 2025
4:15 pm
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
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