History Brown Bag Colloquium

Come join us for the Spring 2024 History Brown Bag Colloquium series. On April 3, Dr. Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University, will speak on his recent book with Sara Nadal-Melsió, Politically Red. 

Politically Red capitalizes on the homonymic play between “red” and “read” in order to trace the relations between political engagement and different forms of literacy. Taking its point of departure from the writings of Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Fredric Jameson, it argues that reading and writing belong to the possibility of mass formations, collective action, and insurrectionary politics.

Eduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Emerson and the Climates of History, Paper Graveyards, and, with Sara Nadal-Melsió, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?, Cities Without Citizens, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography.