The American Studies Certificate Program invites you to join us on Thursday Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m. for a panel discussion addressing issues raised in the newly released essay collection Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (West Virginia UP, 2020), edited by the Graduate Center’s Jeff Maskovsky (Anthropology) and Vanderbilt University’s Sophie Bjork-James.  The volume takes up global authoritarian populisms including Trumpism, Brexit, angry nationalisms of various stripes, worldwide mercenaries, antifascist resistance, varieties of necropolitics, and more.  Our panelists on October 5 will be Alyson Cole (Political Science, GC), Jeff Maskovsky, ​Frances Fox Piven (Political Science, GC), and Don Robotham (Anthropology, GC).  Please contact us at americanstudies@gc.cuny.edu for details on how to join this virtual panel discussion which will take place via Zoom.