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The Future of Capitalism
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Genocidal war, the rise of populism, and the escalating climate crisis, coupled with the changing nature of work and accumulation are redefining capitalism and our lives. This panel will examine how these forces are converging to reshape economies, labor markets, and societies worldwide. Can capitalism adapt to meet the demands of a fair, sustainable, and more human future? Will it fundamentally transform or are we on the cusp of human barbarism?
Join us for an in-depth discussion on how these pressing global issues intersect and the possible futures that lie ahead.
Speakers:
Robert Meister: Department of History of Consciousness, The University of California
Kaushik Sunder Rajan: Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Sameh Naguib: Department of Sociology, The American University in Cairo
Moderator:
Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98
Associate Professor of Political Science at The American University in Cairo and Director of Alternative Policy Solutions (APS)
Where
Hill House - Room 602, AUC Tahrir Square
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
Speakers
Robert Meister
Professor of social and political thought in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he directs the Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism. He is the author of Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx and After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights.
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Professor Sunder Rajan's work lies at the intersection of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), with commitments to social theories of capitalism and postcolonial studies. He seeks to understand the political economy of the contemporary life sciences and biomedicine, with a primary empirical focus on the United States and India.
Sameh Naguib
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, The American University in Cairo.
Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
The American University in Cairo
Rabab El Mahdi is an associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. Her field of specialization is comparative political economy and development, with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. El Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political economy of social policy. Before joining AUC, she worked for several developmental organizations, including Non-governmental organizations and United Nation agencies. Previously she taught at Yale University and was a recipient of a number of fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. She is also the recipient of a number of research grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Currently, she leads AUC's research project, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS). She serves on the boards of a number of civil society and professional organizations, including the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).
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Alternative Policy Solutions
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