Discussing Tanya Serisier's 'Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape, and Narrative Politics' which considers the political value and outcome of 'breaking the silence' on rape and sexual violence. What are the conditions in which such speech is heard?

Discussing Gerry Simpson's The Sentimental Life of International Law - we explore how indirection, hesitancy, and gardening offer a 'style' of engagement that moves people to hope and action.

Discussing Renisa Mawani’s book Across Oceans of Law - concerning issues of migration, Empire, and indigenous peoples as encapsulated in the story of the 1914 voyage of the ship, Komagata Maru.

Discussion with Lisa Baraitser on her book 'Enduring Time', addressing the suspended time of mothering, care, grief, solitary confinement, and anachronistic political ideas.

Discussion with Nanna Bonde Thylstrup on mass digitization and attempts at ‘total archives’ - revealing the corporate and cultural domination of Google Books, Europeana, and the ‘shadow’ libraries that subvert these.

Discussing Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem To Late Liberalism - challenging the distinction between life and non-life. Drawing on knowledge from Indigenous people from the Northern Territory, Australia, hear how humans and apparently inert things like rocks and fog are intertwined and co-constituted. 

Discussing Naeem Mohaiemen’s film 'Two Meetings and a Funeral' which revisits the Non-Aligned Movement, decolonisation of the 1960-70s, and the legacy of the hopes and disappointments of political movements.

Taking Patricia J. Williams’ 1997 BBC Reith Lectures as a point of departure, we discuss the paradoxes of race in the U.S and U.K from then to now. What will gene manipulation, biotechnology, and data gathering bring?