Reading Gramsci: Context, Concepts, and Critique

Join us for a weekly close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks! The group has a twofold goal: first, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text; and second, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci’s work regarding race, gender, and empire, while keeping in mind the historical context in which he wrote.

TIME

THURSDAYS: weekly, beginning September 24, 2026.
5-6 PM Eastern US Time.

FACILITATOR

Giusi Russo is an associate professor of History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Italian left and internal colonialism, as well as the entanglements between bodies and European empires. She is the author of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) and has published extensively on the colonial history of the United Nations and on the construction of colonial and post-colonial narratives. She is currently working on a book project under contract with Routledge, titled, The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies, Spaces, and Oppression.

ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS

We are a mix of rogue scholars, disgruntled academics, disenchanted buddhists, enchantment-hungry anarchists, radical therapists, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of “higher education.”

We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice.

Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups, putting on rigorous seminars and courses, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.