March 2018, seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association Seminar, Los Angeles Convener: Anna Bernard, King's College London Presentations: “‘No One Could Understand Us from So Far Away’: World Literature as International Solidarity,” Anthony Alessandrini, City University of New York “The Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism in 1930s Shanghai and Berlin,” Anup Grewal, University of […]

February 14-15, 2019 workshop at CUNY Grad Center, New York City Keynote Roundtable: featuring J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal), and Robyn Spencer (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center). Moderated by Jessica Stites Mor (University of British Columbia). Two-day workshop schedule and Poster

March 7-10, 2019 seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association Convention, Georgetown University, Washington DC Conveners: Anthony Alessandrini, City University of New York, and Anna Bernard, King's College London Presentations: “‘Thinking Back to That’: Solidarity and Spectatorship in the Post-Revolutionary Documentary,” Anna Bernard, King's College London “Caveat Lector: Illiteracy Reads Solidarity in Ousmane Sembène’s Early […]

Main Building room no: MAL 539 In the context of the expansion of neoliberal, securitarian and far right forces in different corners of the globe, universities are under particular threat. Turkey, Brazil, USA, India, UK, Hungary, Poland… Academics and students everywhere are facing ideological policing, budget cuts, suspension of scholarships, interventions in university autonomy, censorship, […]