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Faith, Politics, and the Power of Images in Mexico
Sep 08 2026
The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.
"Predicted" Author Mona Sloane on AI’s Vision for Society
Sep 03 2026
Author Mona Sloane challenges AI's feared, inevitable transformation with a question we can ask when planning its infrastructure.
“Are You Slow?”: Seven Years with San Francisco's Hit Doctors
Aug 06 2026
Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."
Futures Beyond Control
Aug 06 2026
Author Jia-Lin Liu speaks about the already determined futures for many children in China.
Q&A with Carly Thomsen, author of Reproductive Justice, Queerly
Aug 03 2026
An interview between Public Seminar writer Gil Bittner and author Carly Thomsen about Thomsen's new book, Reproductive Justice, Queerly.
Former Prisons and the Power of Place
Jul 29 2026
Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.
For Immigrant Families, Carework is Resistance
Jul 29 2026
Author Sarah Bruhn on how immigrant women’s carework is as critical as public protest to contesting the hardships imposed by immigration enforcement practices.
The Cultural History of Prisons
Jun 23 2026
Author Michael Welch on how he discovered the "pull of punishment," by which visitors are drawn into the cultural history of prisons, unfolding at former prisons.
Societies Contoured Along Penal Power
May 22 2026
Author Michael Welch presents an excerpt from his new book about the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies.
Q&A with Benjamin R. Weiss, author of "The Price of Justice"
May 21 2026
Author Benjamin R. Weiss on whether civil lawsuits are actually effective for victims of sexual violence.