Thinking With and Beyond Innocence: From Liberal to Illiberal Politics

Time: Nov. 3, 2025, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Location: Kilian Room 500 Hall of Languages

Using the lens of the genocide in Gaza, Miriam Ticktin (CUNY Graduate Center) suggests that claims to innocence serve as a battleground for the shifting relationship between liberalism and illiberalism in the contemporary world, and as the ground of contemporary politics. How might a feminist praxis help us cultivate new ethico-political and affective ways of being, beyond innocence: contaminated, impure and entangled?

Women's and Gender Studies hosts this public presentation, and offers a by-registration workshop with Ticktin on Nov. 4th.

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