Conjuncture

Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

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.

  1. Justin Akers Chacón - Deportation as Class Warfare

    13 feb

    Justin Akers Chacón - Deportation as Class Warfare

    Christina Heatherton speaks with Justin Akers Chacón about class, deportation, and capitalist political economy. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late great Mike Davis. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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 conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts. Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, unionist, historian, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego City College. He is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border (Haymarket, 2021); Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket 2018); and (with Mike Davis) No One is Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2006). Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, and the co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture.

    46 min
  2. Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense | S5 Ep3

    2 ene

    Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense | S5 Ep3

    Jordan T. Camp speaks with labor reporter Kim Kelly about labor history, resistance to the far right, and her book *Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.* Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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 conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts. Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Washington Post, and many others. Her first book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, was published in 2022, and was followed by a young readers' edition in 2025. 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.

    1 h

  3. 06/12/2025

    David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism | S5 Ep. 2

    Christina Heatherton speaks with historian David McNally about slavery, capitalism, and abolitionist struggles. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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 conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts. David McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston where he also directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven books including, most recently, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (UC Press: 2025). Christina Heatherton is Associate Professor of American Studies and the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

    1 h 7 min

  4. 06/10/2025

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

    Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Alex Loftus about the climate crisis, right-wing populism, and "translating" Gramsci's geographical insights in the present. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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 conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts. Alex Loftus is Professor of Political Ecology in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. He is the author of Everyday Environmentalism, co-author of Discovering Political Ecology, and co-editor of Gramsci, Space, Nature, Politics, among other important works. 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 Non-Resident Fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

    33 min

  5. 28/05/2025

    Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism

    Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Camilla Hawthorne about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the U.S. and Italy. This season of Conjuncture is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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 conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Camilla Hawthorne is a critical geographer and Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, co-editor of The Black Geographic, and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies, Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Stuart Hall Fellow in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

    44 min

  6. 01/05/2025

    Hashem Abushama - Palestine is the Barricade

    Christina Heatherton speaks with geographer Hashem Abushama about Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation. 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. Hashem Abushama is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. He is a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. He is currently working on several projects, including the book: Cities and the Settler Colony: Accumulation, Dispossession, and Arts. Hashem is also the winner of the 2024 Stuart Hall Prize for his essay, “A Map Without Guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian Geographies.” Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, and the co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture.

    42 min

  7. 19/03/2025

    Stefan Kipfer on Gramsci, Anti-fascism, and the Resurgence of the Right

    Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer and theorist Stefan Kipfer about Gramsci, anti-fascism, the rise of the right, the "Toronto school," and more. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation. 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. Stefan Kipfer is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. He is author of Urban Revolutions: Urbanization and Neo-Colonialism in Translantic Context, co-editor of Gramsci, Space, Nature, Politics, co-editor of Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre, and is currently working on a new book, Anti-Fascism as Production of Space. 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 Stuart Hall Fellow in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

    1 h 4 min

  8. 04/02/2025

    Kanishka Goonewardena on Nationalism and Imperialism in the Global South

    Christina Heatherton speaks with geographer Kanishka Goonewardena about nationalism and imperialism in the global South. They discuss the current conjuncture in Sri Lanka, the politics of ethnic nationalism, space, and the history of the concept of imperialism. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from 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. Kanishka Goonewardena is a Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is a co-editor of Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre and is completing the book The Future of Planning at the End of History. Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, and the co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture.

    1 h 6 min
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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.

Ficha técnica

  • Creado por
    Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton
  • Años en activo
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodios
    30
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
  • Derechos de autor
    © Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Conjuncture