Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, who specializes on the problem of violence. He is author of over 17 books and edited volumes, including most recently&nbsp;Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity&nbsp;(2021) and&nbsp;Conversations on Violence: An Anthology&nbsp;(with Adrian Parr, 2021). He leads the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books&nbsp;“Histories of Violence” section.

Brad Evans

Adriana Cavarero is professor of Political Philosophy at the&nbsp;Università degli studi di Verona, Italy.

Adriana Cavarero

Akeel Bilgrami&nbsp;is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York.

Akeel Bilgrami

Ayça Çubukçu&nbsp;is associate professor in Human Rights and co-director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ayça Çubukçu

<h4>Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012), Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (1999), and The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986). His essays have appeared in n+1, The Nation, Public Books, and the London Review of Books. He is also the director of a documentary, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists, available at <a href="http://bestfriendsfilm.com/">bestfriendsfilm.com</a>.</h4>

Bruce Robbins

Carol Becker&nbsp;is dean of Faculty and professor of the Arts at&nbsp;Columbia&nbsp;University School of the Arts, New York.

Carol Becker

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at UC Irvine. His most recent book is Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015). He is currently at work on a book on Dread: The Politics of Our Time (2021).

David Theo Goldberg

Elisabeth Anker&nbsp;is associate professor of American Studies and Political Science at the&nbsp;George Washington University.

Elisabeth Anker

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

<h4>Gil Anidjar is a professor in the Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. His most recent book is Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014).</h4>

Gil Anidjar

Henry Armand Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University. He is the author of over 50 books, most recently including Terror of the Unforeseen and American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism.

Henry A. Giroux

Iakovos “Jake” (b. 1966) Chapman is a British-born printmaker, painter, and sculptor. He and his brother Konstantinos “Dinos” (b. 1962) are known as the Chapman Brothers. In their provocative work, they often reappropriate familiar work by past artists, ranging from Goya to Hitler.

Jake Chapman

Lilie Chouliaraki&nbsp;is chair in Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, UK.

Lilie Chouliaraki

Mark Juergensmeyer&nbsp;is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology, and affiliate of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mark Juergensmeyer

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. A retrospective of her work has been shown internationally, and her writing is published widely in publications such as Artforum,&nbsp;e-flux journal,&nbsp;and Texte zur Kunst.

Martha Rosler

Michael J.&nbsp;Shapiro&nbsp;is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa.

Michael J. Shapiro

R. A. Judy&nbsp;is professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

R. A. Judy

Richard&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Bernstein&nbsp;is Vera List Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the&nbsp;New School&nbsp;for Social Research, New York.

Richard J. Bernstein

Roland Bleiker is professor of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Political Theory at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Roland Bleiker

Samuel Moyn&nbsp;is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University.

Samuel Moyn

Samuel Weber is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, as well as Director of that University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory. Weber studied with Paul de Man and Theodor W. Adorno, whose book, Prisms, he co-translated into English. The translation of, and introduction to Theodor Adorno’s most important book of cultural criticism helped shape the reception of the Frankfurt School in the English-speaking world. Weber has also published books on Balzac, Lacan, and Freud, as well as on theatricality as medium and the relation of institutions and media to interpretation. His most recent book has been published in French under the title Inquiétantes singularités (Disquieting Singularities). His current research projects include “Toward a Politics of Singularity” and “Difference and Alterity in the Writings of Derrida.”

Samuel Weber

Simona Forti is professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale in Italy. She also teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today (2014).

Simona Forti

Susanna Siegel&nbsp;is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at&nbsp;Harvard&nbsp;University.

Susanna Siegel

Tarak Barkawi is professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK.

Tarak Barkawi

Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of seventeen books of philosophy, including A Significant Life, A Fragile Life, and A Decent Life, all with University of Chicago Press.

Todd May

Vincent Brown&nbsp;is Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Vincent Brown

William&nbsp;E.&nbsp;Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the political science department at the John Hopkins University.

William E. Connolly

When the Towers Fell

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Peggy Kamuf lives in Los Angeles and teaches French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her latest book is To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida.

Peggy Kamuf

<h4>Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous texts on contemporary French thought and the co-editor, with Julie A. Carlson, of Speaking about Torture.</h4>

Elisabeth Weber

<h4 class="p1">Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  He works in the fields of  phenomenology, political philosophy, and environmental thought. An author of ten books, including Plant-Thinking (2013), Pyropolitics (2015), Dust (2016), and, with Luce Irigaray, Through Vegetal Being (2016), he is currently elaborating a philosophical approach to the question of energy, inspired by vegetal thought. His website is <a href="http://www.michaelmarder.org/">www.michaelmarder.org</a>.</h4>
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Michael Marder

<h4>Luce Irigaray is a French philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist. She is the Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. One of the most influential feminist thinkers in the world, she is best known for The Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1977). An author of over 30 books, her most recent works in English include are Sharing the World (2008), Conversations (2008), and In the Beginning She Was (2012).</h4>

Luce Irigaray

Remembering Derrida: A Forum

Everything Burns: Derrida’s Holocaust

Gil Anidjar is a professor in the Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. His most recent book is Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014).

Gil Anidjar

Articles

When the Towers Fell

Remembering Derrida: A Forum

Everything Burns: Derrida’s Holocaust