Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer. Her essays, poetry and visual art have appeared widely — in Harper’s, Poetry Review, Frieze, the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. She has translated many texts, classical and contemporary, from the Arabic and French. Her work has earned her a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. She lives in Paris.

Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies. He researches in political philosophy, critical theory, and transgender studies. Zurn is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, forthcoming 2022). He is also the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), Carceral Notebooks 12 (2017), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021).

Hosted by Anna Ziajka Stanton and Jonathan P. Eburne. Additional participants TBA.