Seminar One: “Adorno and the ambivalence of identity” (January 29, 2021)
Jonathon Catlin – “Adorno, Du Bois, and the Wounds of Identity”
Eric Oberle – “Theses on Identity”
Fumi Okiji – Adorno and Raciality
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Seminar Two: “Rethinking Adorno and race, part 1: Revisiting Du Bois and critical race theory” (February 12, 2021)
Corey D. B. Walker, “The Wound of Blackness: Thinking Adorno and the Limits of Critical Theory”
Oshrat Silberbusch – “‘The World Thus Darkly Through the Veil’: Reflections on Identity (Thinking) with Du Bois and Adorno”
Charlotte Baumann – “Adorno, Suffering and Critical Race Theory: Or, the Non-identical and the System”
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Seminar Three: “Rethinking Adorno and race, part 2: Freedom through fugitivity and negation” (February 26, 2021)
Henrike Kohpeiß – “Identity Produced by Negation: Freedom after Theodor Adorno and Saidiya Hartman”
Romy Opperman – “Critical Black Feminist Theory”
Anders Bartonek – “Marronage and Non-identity”
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Seminar Four: “Rethinking Adorno and race, part 3: Fanon, racisms, and the question of praxis” (March 12, 2021)
Martin Shuster – “Antiblackness, Antisemitism, and the State: Fanon, the Frankfurt School, and the Social Contract Tradition”
Sid Simpson and Ryan Curnow – “Stripping Away the Masks of Identity: Adorno and Fanon’s Negative Dialectics”
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Seminar Five: Adorno and queer dis/identification (April 9, 2021)
Asaf Angermann – “Queer Utopia and the Incommensurable: Adorno after Muñoz”
Kyle Kaplan – “Dear Adorno: On the Limits of Personal and Practical Advice”
Nicole Yokum – “The Politics of Avoidance: From Adornian Coldness to Edelmanian Antisociality”
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Seminar Six: Adorno and the politics of non-identity (April 16, 2021)
Frank Müller – “Reflections on the Politics of Non-identity”
Ariane Mintz – “Unveiling the ‘Individualistic Veil’: On Narcissistic Reactions to Capitalist Mutilations”
Robyn Marasco – “Elements of a Critical Theory of the Family”
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Seminar Seven: Adorno in an age of identity thinking, big data, and new media (April 23, 2021)
Samir Gandesha – “Adorno’s Critique of Identity Thinking: Between the Abstract and Concrete”
Jerome Clarke – “Battle of Negroes in a Black Box: Nonidentity and Race Data”
Moira Weigel – “Ashli’s Third: Conformity, Counterculture, and the Authoritarian Personality 2.0”
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