Join us to celebrate Sarah Newman's Unmaking Waste. She will be in a round-table discussion with Claudia Brittenham, Pauline Goul, and Mariana Petry Cabral about her new book. A reception will follow.

Adom Getachew, a Professor of Political Science and a CISSR Faculty Book Fellow and Board Member was interviewed by Nawal Arjini in the New York Review of Books on a piece she contributed to about Howard French's Born in Blackness. Throughout the interview, Prof. Getachew discusses the influence of W.E.B DuBois on international politics and the importance of re-integrating African histories and perspectives into the usual practice of intellectual and scholarly output despite the willful erasure of the said perspectives from pre-colonial and colonial history by the Western world and colonizers. During the interview, Prof. Getachew suggests that history remains a critical piece to understand when studying political thought, by adding context to ideas which seem unimpeachable provide scholars and the public the opportunity to better understand the world that created African political thought.  These public conversations help build up a historical consciousness which can only assist in the public understanding political theory and the reasons politics look how it does today. Read the article here.