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Last year online discussions took place about power in the contemporary world with prominent intellectuals and select City University of New York faculty and graduate students.
Every two weeks, a prominent guest from the world of journalism, politics, academia, or the arts composed a blog entry responding to a key text that addresses the concept of "power". You can view the daily responses from seminar participants, as well as the associated reading.
April 7: Blogs
As'ad AbuKhalil and Daniel Drezner
March 24-April 6: Travelin' Man
Pankaj Mishra on Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (London: Penguin, 1992), pp 17-21; 37-44; 143-150 
March 10-March 23: Rights
Jose Alvarez on Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
February 25-March 9: Blood and Oil
Ashley Dawson on Abdelrahman Munif, Cities of Salt (New York: Random House, 2008), pp. 576-627
February 10-February 24: Just War
Juan Cole on Michael Walzer, On Just and Unjust Wars pp. 74-108
January 27-February 9: Anti-Imperial Violence
Andrew Bacevich on Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington (New York: Grove Press, 1963), pp. 249-310
January 13-January 26: Imperial Definition
Laila Lalami on Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979), pp. 31-49
November 18-December 2: Urban Space
David Harvey on Chinatown
November 4-November 17: Fascist Art
Alice Kaplan on Susan Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism," Under the Sign of Saturn (New York: Picador, 1980, 1991), pp. 73-105
October 21- November 3: Family Romance
Ariel Levy on Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Modern Library, 2001), pp. 190-211
October 7 - October 20: The Power of Sex
Michael Warner on Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (New York: Vintage, 1990), pp. 53-73; 135-159
September 23 - October 6: The Powerlessness of Violence
Jill Lepore on Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), pp. 35-56
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