Conjuncture Podcast

Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-hosted by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton and produced for the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular moments and geographical situations. Amidst a crisis of hegemony on a world scale, this webinar series will curate conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.

Nick Beech and Jordan T. Camp discuss the Stuart Hall Archive Project, previously unpublished material, and the relevance of Hall’s public intellectual praxis in the current conjuncture.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

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Racial Capitalism

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

Ibrahim Shikaki
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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.

Gillian Hart headshot
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South Africa and Palestine/Israel in a Global Frame

Geographer Ayyaz Mallick speaks on Gramsci, Fanon, and challenges for movements in Pakistan, Palestine, and the Global South.

Ayyaz Mallick
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Gramsci, Fanon, and Imperialism in the Global South

Christina Heatherton speaks with historians Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh about their work on racism, capital, and punishment.

Robin D. G. Kelley, Christina Heatherton, and Peter Linebaugh
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American Thanatocracy

Christina Heatherton speaks with Jordan T. Camp about Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, conjunctural analysis, and the politics of the present.

Jordan Camp
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Conjunctural Analysis

Jordan T. Camp speaks with law professor John Whitlow about conjunctural analysis, the law, Trumpism, and housing struggles in neoliberal New York City.

John Whitlow
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Housing Struggles in Neoliberal New York

Jordan T. Camp speaks with award-winning musician Leyla McCalla about her work on New Orleans, Haiti, capitalism, and her most recent album, Breaking the Thermometer.

Leyla McCalla
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‘Breaking the Thermometer’

Christina Heatherton speaks with Judah Schept about his new book, Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (NYU Press, 2022).

Judah Schept
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The Carceral Conjuncture in Central Appalachia

Jordan T. Camp speaks with Thulani Davis about her new book, The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (Duke, 2022), Black political thought, and the unfinished business of freedom struggles.

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The Emancipation Circuit

Christina Heatherton speaks with Isaac Kamola about manufactured campus culture wars, the resurgence of the right, and the politics of intellectual work in the current conjuncture.

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Manufacturing a Campus Culture War

Jordan T. Camp interviews Christina Heatherton about the relationship between the internationalization of capital and the making of internationalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution.

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Making Internationalism

Jordan T. Camp speaks with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the history of racial capitalism, the roots of fascism, and the freedom dreams of social movements to open season 2 of Conjuncture.

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Against Pessimism

In this sixth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is Leniqueca A. Welcome. They discuss her ethnographic research in Trinidad, what she calls the “tyranny of the present,” and the possibilities of abolitionist politics today.

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The Tyranny of the Present

In the fifth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with cultural historian and theorist Michael Denning about his work, conjunctural interventions, and Antonio Gramsci’s legacy for politics today.

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Politics as Organizing

In this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about his research on racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Racial Capitalism and Counterinsurgency

In this third episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with political theorist Marcus Green about Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups (Columbia University Press, 2021), the volume he co-edited with the late Joseph Buttigieg.

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Antonio Gramsci and Subaltern Social Groups

In this second episode of “Conjuncture,” Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Gillian Hart about resurgent nationalism and the challenges of the current conjuncture.

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Resurgent Nationalisms and the Challenges of the Current Conjuncture

In the first episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is political theorist Anthony Bogues, who discusses his research on the Black radical intellectual tradition and its distinctive critique of the present conjuncture.

Anthony Bogues headshot
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The Black Radical Intellectual Tradition & The Critique of the Present