In this episode (recorded Nov 2019 and Feb 2020), the writer-activists Sophie Chamas, Nizar Hassan, Joseph Salloum, and Ghiwa Sayegh discuss the popular revolution that was taking place across Lebanon at the time and share their hopes and fears about what might happen next. Title inspired by Susan Meiselas.
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.
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.
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.
Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon at universities have been moderately successful. These, however, are only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done. How can students and educators best participate in this urgent intellectual and political project?
Keynote: Penny von Eschen, University of Virginia – View Talk Here
Keynote: Zeina Maasri, University of Bristol – View Talk Here
Keynote: Mandana Tishehyar, Universidad Allameh Tabataba’I – View Talk Here
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.
It’s hard to grasp the scope of the coronavirus outbreak and our many responses to it, as the disease’s impact cuts across professional worlds, political projects and personal lives all at the same time.
Here are three mapping projects working to track different organizing efforts in response to COVID-19 in the U.S. context. We hope you can use these as a jumping-off point for projects to follow and support!
Continue reading “Mapping COVID-19 repsonses”On December 8th, graduate student workers at UC Santa Cruz launched a wildcat strike, aiming to win a Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their wages and protect themselves from the state’s housing crisis, which pushes many student workers to the brink of homelessness.
The UCSC struggle is ongoing, with strikers threatened with firings and solidarity strikes spreading to other University of California campuses. Faculty on other campuses can sign the support petition in this google doc.
Everyone can donate to the UCSC strike fund here:
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, tens of thousands of lecturers, librarians and other academic and support staff are striking across the country. The series of staggered strikes, planned into March, focus on issues of pay, pensions and working conditions.
You can support the UK strikers by donating to the University and College Union strike fund here:
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