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June 19, 2026
Q&A with Dr. Victor Fan
Dr. Victor Fan - Critical Thinkers SeriesQ and A TranscriptQuestion: In Buddhist thought, does causation unfold in time, or do things arise simultaneously beyond temporal logic?Dr. Victor Fan: It’s a really good question, because Nāgārjuna’s thesis is actually about that question. The idea is…
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April 17, 2026
Q & A with Dr. Sarah Shamash
Dr. Sarah Shamash - Critical Thinkers SeriesQ and A Transcript Question: Do you think solidarity can be understood as a form of “liquidity,” given recent theoretical work on fluidity?Dr. Sarah Shamash: Yes, I do. I tried to acknowledge that “solidarity” has become an overused term, and some…
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March 22, 2026
Q & A with Dr. Julia Alekseyeva
This talk analyzes the film and philosophy of Matsumoto Toshio, avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the queer, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and a series of "neo-documentary" films from the early-mid 1960s. Specifically, it looks at his work through the overarching lens…
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February 24, 2026
Q & A with Dr. Sunera Thobani
Rethinking Muslim Presence in Popular Indian Films by Dr. Sunera ThobaniMuslims were indispensable to the founding and development of the pre-Partition popular film industry (Masud, 2008; Roy, 2015 ); this was also the case in the industry’s post-liberalization transformation into Bollywood,…