Book Talk | Andrew Ross | The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, November 18 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Andrew Ross. He will discuss his book The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates with Neferti Tadiar and Moustafa Bayoumi.

Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where he also directs the Prison Research Lab. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates.

Neferti Xina M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of: Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009), and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order(2004), which was awarded the Philippine National Book Award in Cultural Criticism for 2005. She is also co-editor of Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation (with Angela Y. Davis). Her most recent book Remaindered Life (Duke University Press, 2022), is a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of the global empire of capital.

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press), which was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The Progressive magazine and also won the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. He is the co-editor (with Andrew Rubin) of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage), which has been reissued in an expanded edition as The Selected Works of Edward Said (1966-2006). An accomplished journalist as well as a professor of literature, Bayoumi has written forThe New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other places. He writes a regular column for The Guardian on politics and culture.