Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek's Bastards, and What Comes Next--
Quinn Slobodian in conversation with Chelsea Schields
Moderated by James Robertson
Humanities Gateway 1010, Monday April 21, 2025, 4:00-5:30
Quinn Slobodian is a prize-winning author and professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. A contributor to the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and Boston Review, among other publications, his books Globalists and Crack-Up Capitalism were published to wide acclaim in 2018 and 2023. This event will launch his latest work, Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, published by Zone Books/Princeton University Press on April 15 of this year. The launch will take the form of a dialogue between Slobodian and Chelsea Schields, UCI Associate Professor of History and the author of the prize-winning Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (UC Press, 2023).
Sponsored by the Forum for the Academy and the Public, the Center for the Study of Democracy, and the History Department