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Dear Colleagues, I am David Arditi, and as you may have heard, I was recently appointed to serve as Director of the Center for Theory. For many of you, my name is brand new, but I just completed my fourth year at UTA as an Assistant Professor. For the first 3 years, I was in…Continue Reading LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Ben Agger, founding Director of the Center for Theory, passed away suddenly during the Summer of 2015. The following is an article written by The Shorthorn, the University of Texas’ student newspaper. BEN AGGER, SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR, DIE BY KATHRYN CARGO, THE SHORTHORN STAFF Ben Agger will never know how life-changing he was to Chad Austin….Continue Reading IN MEMORY OF BEN AGGER

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: NAFTA and Brexit: Reconsidering the Global Forces of Populism and Free Trade Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special issue on NAFTA and Brexit. The goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries in time to present careful critical studies of the links between neoliberal trade…Continue Reading FAST CAPITALISM CFP ON NAFTA AND BREXIT

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