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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, Jordan T. Camp discusses the Stuart Hall Archive Project (SHAP) with Nick Beech, SHAP Co-Lead at the University of Birmingham. They discuss the archives, previously unpublished material, and the relevance of Hall's public intellectual praxis in the current conjuncture. 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.

Nick Beech is an Associate Professor of Social Polity and Society and Co-Leader of the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham. He earned his Ph.D. from the University College London. His research focuses on histories of architecture, the New Left, and London. His current work with the Stuart Hall Archive Project seeks to recover unpublished material, create forums for engagement with Hall’s work, including a specific focus on conjunctures.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with feminist historian Catherine Hall about the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, social reproduction, and her groundbreaking new book, *Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism* (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024) to open season 4 of Conjuncture. This season is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation.

In this episode, Jordan T. Camp speaks with economist Ibrahim Shikaki about the political economy of Palestine, the economic impacts of prolonged occupation, and waves of protests against the war in Gaza in this turbulent conjuncture.

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.