Conjuncture

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.

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. 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.

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 is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, CT; a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library; and a Stuart Hall Fellow in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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. 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. Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London, an editor for both the Critical Perspectives on Empire series at Cambridge University Press and the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series at Duke University Press, and the author of multiple books about Britain and empire, including most recently, *Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism* (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, CT; a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library; and a Stuart Hall fellow in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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. 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. Ibrahim Shikaki is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

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.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Ayyaz Mallick about Gramsci, Fanon, and challenges for movements in Pakistan, Palestine, and the Global South. 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. Ayyaz Mallick is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Liverpool. His writing appears in influential venues like Antipode, Historical Materialism, Studies in Political Economy, and Urban Geography. He writes for newspapers and popular venues such as Jacobin and Novara Media. 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 Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

In this special episode, co-host Christina Heatherton moderates a conversation between historians Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh about their work on racism, capital, and punishment. This episode was co-produced with the Howard Zinn Book Fair. 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. Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Peter Linebaugh is a historian and the author of The Magna Carta Manifesto; The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day; and Stop, Thief!, among many others, and the co-author, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra.

Christina Heatherton speaks with Jordan T. Camp about Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, conjunctural analysis, and the politics of the present. 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. 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 Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with law professor John Whitlow about conjunctural analysis, the law, Trumpism, and housing struggles in neoliberal New York City. 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. John Whitlow is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York School of Law, where he teaches primarily in the Community & Economic Development (CED) Clinic. He is currently a Senior Fellow at New York University Law School’s Initiative for Community Power, and serves on the board of directors of The Action Lab. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with award-winning musician Leyla McCalla about her work on New Orleans, Haiti, capitalism, and her most recent album, 'Breaking the Thermometer,' out now on ANTI- Records. 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.  Leyla McCalla is an award-winning musician and singer-songwriter. A member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops as well as the band Our Native Daughters, McCalla has also produced four solo albums of her own: 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' (2014), 'A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey' (2016), 'Capitalist Blues' (2019), and, most recently, 'Breaking the Thermometer' (2022).  Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with Zachary Levenson about his new book, Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City (Oxford University Press, 2022). Conjuncture is a web series and 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Zachary Levenson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida International University in the United States and a Senior Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

For this special May Day episode of Conjuncture, we air one of Mike Davis' final public talks, a reading from his unfinished manuscript, Star Spangled Leviathan: An Economic History of American Nationalism. The talk was originally recorded for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative on May Day in 2022. Conjuncture is a web series and 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a preeminent writer, editor, activist, and radical public intellectual. He was the author more than 20 influential books, including City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso) and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Verso) with Jon Wiener.

Christina Heatherton speaks with Judah Schept about his new book, *Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia* (NYU Press, 2022).    Conjuncture is a web series and 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 the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments.    Judah Schept is Professor of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.      Christina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jordan T. Camp speaks with Thulani Davis about her new book, *The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom* (Duke, 2022), Black political thought, and the unfinished business of freedom struggles.   Conjuncture is a web series and 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.   Thulani Davis is a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.    Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.