Prof. Peter Hudson, University of British Columbia

Location: Mergenthaler 526

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a graduate methods workshop on historical and geographical approaches to studying racial capitalism, led by Prof. Peter Hudson, Associate Professor of Geography. The conversation will be wide-ranging, and students are encouraged to bring questions pertaining to their own related research topics.

Prof. Hudson deploys the methodologies and literatures of Black Studies, political economy, and history. His research examines the long histories of Black dispossession under capitalism, and of Black resistance to capitalist dispossession. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, published by University of Chicago Press in 2017.

This workshop will precede a presentation by Prof. Hudson in the Arrighi Center Seminar, beginning at 1:30pm, on Race, Capitalism, and Development, led by Zophia Edwards (Sociology and Chloe Center) and Inés Valdez (Political Science and LACLxS). It also coincides with the first International Political Sociology (IPS) Workshop at Johns Hopkins University, held September 26 and 27. The IPS Workshop this year focuses on empire and imperialism, and asks: how can IPS as a field help us produce critical scholarship on the theme of Empire and imperialism in global politics? RSVP to receive more information.

The workshop is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Lunch will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to read Prof. Hudson’s article in Small Axe, “History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism.”