Author: Jessica Stites Mor

The ISARN Recordings

The ISARN Recordings

On the International Solidarity Action Research Network podcast, hosts Tony Alessandrini, Jessica Stites Mor, and Anna Bernard take you through a series of stories on the ins and outs of solidarity, from the frontlines, the sidelines, behind the scenes and in the quiet after the lights go down, to figure out better ways we can all stay grounded in solidarity. Click here to view all the episodes with program notes on our guests and more information about each episode: https://isarn.org/category/podcast/

In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both historically and globally, and argue for the value of affect in revolutionary thought and practice. Title inspired by Mariame Kaba.
  1. Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution
  2. Pictures of a Revolution: Lebanon 2019-2020
  3. Solidarity, Scholarship, and Struggle (Recorded March 2020)
  4. Black Activism and Internationalism in the United States (Recorded March 2020)
  5. The Tricontinental Movement and the Cultures of Solidarity (Recorded October 2019)

Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution 

In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both historically and globally, and argue for the value of affect in revolutionary thought and practice. Title inspired by Mariame Kaba.

Solidarity, Scholarship, and Struggle 

This is our second installment with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). In this episode, Spencer considers the question of solidarity from several angles, discussing her collaborative scholarship and activism, the Black Panthers’ ways of working together and with other movements, and the scholar-activist Angela Davis.

Black Activism and Internationalism in the United States

This is the first installment of a two-part conversation with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). This episode focuses on Spencer’s work on the history of Black organizing in the United States, looking particularly at the Black Panther Party and the anti-imperialist writer and activist Patricia Murphy Robinson.

The Tricontinental Movement and the Cultures of Solidarity

What role does culture play in creating, transforming, and sustaining political solidarity? In this episode (recorded 2019), we speak to Anne Garland Mahler, author of From Tricontinentalism to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and International Solidarity (2018), and Debra Lennard, curator of the exhibition ‘Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print’ (2019), about their work on the cultural history of the Tricontinental movement.

Anti-Racist Thought and Activism in History

The Public Humanities Hub Okanagan (PHH-O) is pleased to host a virtual speaker series, Anti-Racist Thought and Activism in History. This speaker series addresses how past experiences and historical models of anti-racist activism can continue to give guidance to ongoing thought and anti-racist work. 

Supported by the UBC Anti-Racism Initiatives Fund, Office of the Provost; CUNY Grad Center; Kingsborough Community College; King’s College London; Princeton University Advanced Studies Institute; Public Humanities Hub, UBC Okanagan; Historicities Cluster, UBC; UBC Graduate program in Power, Conflict and Ideas; and the International Solidarity Action and Research Network.

Amira Rose Davis (Pennsylvania State University) – Website

Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto) – Previous talk

Devyn Spence Benson (University of Kentucky) – View the talk

Sita Balani and Gargi Bhattacharyya (King’s College London/University of East London) – View the talk

Priya Gopal (Cambridge University) – View the talk

Erika Lee (University of Minnesota) – View the talk

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) – View the talk

Najat el Hachmi (author) – View the talk

Co-moderators for the series are UBCO professors Jessica Stites Mor (History), Francisco Peña (World literatures), Tony Alessandrini from Princeton/CUNY and Anna Bernard from King’s College London.

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