The Anthropology and Social Change department at CIIS is hosting this free two day event with talks by John Holloway.

Today’s event is titled “It is Time to Re-Learn Hope” 

Social anger is growing, but it is going away from us, turning against us. This has much to do with a loss of hope: anti-capitalist hope, the hope that we can create a society beyond capitalism. We must learn again to think hope, not just as a theoretical but as a political project.

John Holloway is a professor in the graduate school in sociology of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. His books, Change the World without taking Power (first published by Pluto Press, London, in 2002) and Crack Capitalism (first published by Pluto Press, London, in 2010) have each been translated into a dozen languages and have stirred international controversy. The third book of the trilogy, Hope in Hopeless Times was published by Pluto in 2022.

CIIS offers low-residency MAs and PhDs that emphasize activism and social justice through scholarship. CIIS is a stand-alone graduate school in the south of market area of San Francisco.