19 episodes

Conjuncture is a monthly podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. 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 historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.

Conjuncture Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 14 Ratings

Conjuncture is a monthly podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. 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 historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.

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

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

    This episode features a talk by geographer Gillian Hart from the Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco in December 2023. Hart interrogates the conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and situates Palestine/Israel and South African apartheid in a global comparative frame. 

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. 

    Gillian Hart is Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate School in Geography, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Graduate Centre at the Univ. of the Witwatersrand. This talk draws upon her presentation at the Historical Materialism London conference in November 2023. Questions raised in both lectures have informed her new Antipode article, “Progeny of Empire: Defining Moments of Nation Formation in South Africa and Palestine/Israel,” available here.

    • 32 min
    Ayyaz Mallick on Gramsci, Fanon, and Imperialism in the Global South

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

    Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Ayyaz Mallick about Gramsci, Fanon, and challenges for movements in Pakistan, Palestine, and the Global South.

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

    Ayyaz Mallick is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Liverpool. His writing appears in influential venues like Antipode, Historical Materialism, Studies in Political Economy, and Urban Geography. He writes for newspapers and popular venues such as Jacobin and Novara Media.

    Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

    • 35 min
    Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh on American Thanatocracy

    Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh on American Thanatocracy

    In this special episode, co-host Christina Heatherton moderates a conversation between historians Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh about their work on racism, capital, and punishment. This episode was co-produced with the Howard Zinn Book Fair.

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

    Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

    Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Peter Linebaugh is a historian and the author of The Magna Carta Manifesto; The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day; and Stop, Thief!, among many others, and the co-author, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Jordan T. Camp on Conjunctural Analysis

    Jordan T. Camp on Conjunctural Analysis

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

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

    Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

    Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

    • 49 min
    John Whitlow on Housing Struggles in Neoliberal New York

    John Whitlow on Housing Struggles in Neoliberal New York

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

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.

    John Whitlow is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York School of Law, where he teaches primarily in the Community & Economic Development (CED) Clinic. He is currently a Senior Fellow at New York University Law School’s Initiative for Community Power, and serves on the board of directors of The Action Lab.

    Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

    • 51 min
    Conjuncture: Leyla McCalla on 'Breaking the Thermometer' S3 | Ep1

    Conjuncture: Leyla McCalla on 'Breaking the Thermometer' S3 | Ep1

    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,' out now on ANTI- Records.

    Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support of 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. 



    Leyla McCalla is an award-winning musician and singer-songwriter. A member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops as well as the band Our Native Daughters, McCalla has also produced four solo albums of her own: 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' (2014), 'A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey' (2016), 'Capitalist Blues' (2019), and, most recently, 'Breaking the Thermometer' (2022). 



    Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

    • 56 min

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