Published: Jan. 19, 2024

Conference Information

Philip Gorski: Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University. He writes on religion and politics in early modern and modern Western Europe and North America from a comparative historical perspective. His current work focuses on the history and politics of White Christian Nationalism and American Civil Religion. He is the co-author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy.

Ramesh Srinivasan: Professor of information studies and design media arts at UCLA and Director of UC Digital Cultures Lab. He writes about the intersection of technology, innovation, politics, business, and society. A Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate and author of Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow, Srinivasan militates for a democratic Internet and a digital bill of rights around the world.

Reiland Rabaka: Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Founding Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His books include W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology; The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism; and Black Power Music! Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement.