Events

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; […]

Program Coordinator: Agustin Cosovschi, École française d’Athènes/UBC Keynote speakers: Roads not Taken and the Intersecting Afterlives of Colonialism and the Cold War Penny von Eschen, University of Virginia, USA The Visual Politics of Anticolonial Solidarity Zeina Maasri, University of Bristol, UK Economic Neo-colonialism and the Arab Spring  Mandana Tishehyar, Universidad Allameh Tabataba’I, Iran Coordinating committee: […]

ISARN plans to host a 3-day workshop at the American Comparative Literature Association The ACLA's 2024 annual meeting will take place at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montreal, March 14-17, 2024. Does solidarity have an aesthetics? How would we recognize or define such a thing, and how might it challenge our assumptions about what art […]

A book launch featuring: Tony Alessandrini, (CUNY), Decolonize Multiculturalism Anna Bernard, (King’s College London) Decolonize Literature Gary Wilder, (CUNY), Concrete Utopianism With commentary by Jini Kim Watson (NYU) and Anita Girvan (UBC) Moderated by Jessica Stites Mor (UBC) Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/65479566059?pwd=WU5UNUgvMW01Z0dPMzBCbS9McVovUT09

Session 1: Writing and Performing Solidarity Tuesday, May 7, 9:00 PST/12:00 EST/17:00 London/20:00 Amman Christopher Berardino, “‘He Was All People and They Were He’: James Joyce’s ‘Epiphany Process’ and Richard Wright’s ‘Innocent Guilt’ in The Man Who Lived Underground” Paul Jaussen, “The Solidarity Poetics of Public Mourning” Danielle Drees, “Political Mother: Maternal Solidarity Aesthetics in […]

Session 2: Doing Solidarity Monday May 20, 9:00 PST/12:00 EST/17:00 London/20:00 Amman Ricardo Velasco Trujillo, “Building Solidarities and Transforming Institutions with Fabrics: Activism and Sewing Practices in Colombia’s Center for Memory Peace and Reconciliation” Hande Gurses, “Recipes for Survival: Solidarity in the Aftermath of Gezi Park” Crystal Bartolovich, “Of Tables and Mappings: Figures of Solidarity […]

Session 3: Building Usable Pasts Monday, June 3, 9:00 PST/12:00 EST/17:00 London/20:00 Amman Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas, “The Aesthetics of Solidarity: The Representation of Suffering in and through Guernica” Tayseer Abu […]

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