Past Events

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 Works,” Julie-Françoise Tolliver, University of Houston “The Import of Brief, Nameless Lives: Intellectual Auto/biography and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Shirin…

March 13-14, 2019, University of Toronto, St. George’s downtown campus Keynote Roundtable: “Statelessness and Solidarity” – featuring Dalia Muller (SUNY-Buffalo), Molly Todd (Montana State University), and Fernando Camacho Padilla (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid). Moderated by Anthony Alessandrini (City University of New York). Two-day workshop. Virtual Forum/ Working group https://can-latam.org/working-groups/beyond-borders

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, individual persecution and criminal prosecution. Although specific constellations of political, social and economic contexts shape the attack on universities in particular ways across different localities,…