All seminars are aimed primarily at graduate students undertaking or considering the Critical Theory Emphasis, but all are welcome.
Winter 2025 Critical Theory Mini-Seminar
"In the Shadow of Commodity"
Alyssa Battistoni
Barnard College
Assistant Professor of Political Science
When: January 14th-16th, 2026
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
This is an in-person event - Please RSVP Here if you intend on attending the CTE Mini-Seminar.
*Please note that UCI students attending this Mini-Seminar for credit are required to attend all three seminar sessions. Sign-ins will be required each session.
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Alyssa is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019), and Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025). Her academic work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, NOMOS, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and the Socialist Register, and she writes frequently for publications including the New Left Review, n+1, Boston Review, the Nation, Dissent, and Jacobin. She is a member of the Climate & Community Institute and on the editorial board of Dissent
Please message criticaltheory@uci.edu for any questions.