A Night of Philosophy & Ideas

Once again, BISR faculty will be participating in the annual A Night of Philosophy & Ideas, an all-night marathon of philosophical debate, performances, screenings, readings, and music! Co-presented by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, A Night of Philosophy takes place Saturday and Sunday, February 1st-2nd, and is free to attend. For more information and a complete speaking schedule, please visit the event page.

BISR Schedule

LIFE ON THE EDGE: GUNS, TERROR, AND THE CULTURE OF CONSTANT VIGILANCE
Suzanne Schneider
Social Sciences & Technology Division | 10pm

WE’RE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER: CLIMATE, POLITICS, & CONFLICT
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
History, Biography, Religion Division | 12am

EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Languages & Literature Division | 6:30am

Participants

• Suzanne Schneider

  Suzanne Schneider is Executive Director and Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, specializing in political theory and history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine and The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism. Her writing about contemporary politics, religion, and violence has appeared in New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jewish Currents among other outlets. She is currently working on a new book about the history and politics of risk.

• Ajay Singh Chaudhary

  Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, media, religion, and post-colonial studies. He has written for the The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quartz, Social Text, Dialectical Anthropology, The Jewish Daily Forward, Filmmaker Magazine, and 3quarksdaily, among other venues. Ajay is currently writing a book on the politics of climate change.

• Rebecca Ariel Porte

  Rebecca Ariel Porte is a member of the Core Faculty specializing in literature and aesthetic philosophy and theory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her scholarly interests include comparative poetry and poetics, critical theory, and dream houses of the collective (paradise, Arcadia, the Golden Age, utopia, and the given world).

Event Schedule

Saturday, 7:00pm-7:00am
February 01 — February 02, 2020