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  • February 2026

  • Thu 19

    Perry Anderson on World War I and the present international crisis, in conversation with Tony Wood

    February 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New […]

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  • March 2026

  • Thu 19

    Tony Tulathimutte on gender and comedy in fiction, in conversation with Hermione Hoby

    March 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris […]

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  • April 2026

  • Thu 23

    Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel

    April 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why […]

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  • May 2026

  • Thu 21

    Paul Reitter on translating Marx’s Capital, in conversation with Arne Höcker

    May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Paul Reitter is Professor in German Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Bambi’s Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), On the Origins […]

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  • June 2026

  • Thu 18

    Jeff Sharlet on our slow civil war, in conversation with Nathan Schneider

    June 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books. His latest is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for […]

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  • July 2026

  • Thu 16

    Amia Srinivasan on the right to sex, in conversation with Hermione Hoby

    July 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Amia Srinivasan is a philosopher and author noted for her work in epistemology and feminist philosophy. She is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. […]

  • August 2026

  • Thu 20

    Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein’s afterlife, in conversation with Claire Kelley

    August 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) and Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025). She has held fellowships at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, […]

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  • October 2026

  • Thu 22

    Fred Moten and Stefano Harney on the undercommons

    October 22 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Fred Moten is Professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, where he teaches courses in black study, poetics and critical theory. He works […]

  • November 2026

  • Thu 19

    danah boyd on the federal bureaucracy, in conversation with Colette Perold

    November 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye towards how structural inequities shape […]

  • February 2027

  • Thu 25

    Michael Hardt on Empire, Multitude, Antonio Negri, and the subversive seventies, in conversation with Rachel Kushner

    February 25, 2027 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University.  His works combine philosophical investigations with analyses of our current political situation.  Studying the current forms of social […]

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