Conjuncture is a monthly podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.
Christina Heatherton speaks with interdisciplinary feminist scholar Marisol LeBrón about about Puerto Rico, racism against Latinx communities, solidarity, and her forthcoming book Policed: A Latinx History of State Violence (UC Press).
Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.
Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her new book Policed: A Latinx History of State Violence will be published on the University of California Press in 2027.
Christina Heatherton is Associate Professor of American Studies and the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
13 Feb 2026
Justin Akers Chacón - Deportation as Class Warfare
Christina Heatherton speaks with Justin Akers Chacón about class, deportation, and capitalist political economy. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late great Mike Davis.
Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.
Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, unionist, historian, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego City College. He is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border (Haymarket, 2021); Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket 2018); and (with Mike Davis) No One is Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2006).
Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, and the co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture.
2 Jan 2026
Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense | S5 Ep3
Jordan T. Camp speaks with labor reporter Kim Kelly about labor history, resistance to the far right, and her book *Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.*
Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.
Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Washington Post, and many others. Her first book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, was published in 2022, and was followed by a young readers' edition in 2025.
Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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4,657,709,572
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
19 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100
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28
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YouTube
93
Engagement
85
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