The Occupation of Kashmir: How We Celebrate Freedom!
Asgar Qadri discusses the relationship between the ongoing occupation of Kashmir and other resistance movements in the world and the connections between everyday violence in an occupied territory and Islamophobia in international politics.
Race and Racism in the Global South: Notes from Contemporary India
Gabriel Dattatreyan and Nima Lamu Yolmo discuss the nature of race and racism faced by African students in India in the context of access to urban housing, sustainable employment, and cultural sociality. The discussion revolved around connecting the interrogation of anti-blackness and race in the Global South with that in sites like the United States and Western Europe.
Gernika: 78 Years Later
Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordonez and Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas discuss the nature of history, memory and art surrounding the bombing of the Basque city of Gernika with the audience.
Images from the exhibit Gernika/Guernica
Struggle and Solidarity: A Democratic History of Champaign-Urbana
Audiences gather at the opening of the exhibition at the Independent Media Center. The panel discussion included narratives of the different struggles in Champaign Urbana, such as the desegregation of the school district, justice for Project 500 students, solidarity with Central American social movements and the campaign against the invasion of Iraq, that each of the panelists had been a part of. The panel included Patricia Lewis, Alonzo Donaldson, Belden Fields and Al Kagan.
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Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defence
Prof. Teresa Barnes and Augustus Wood speak about the critique of violence in African decolonization movements and the importance of Fanon to the Black experience in the United States at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign following the screening of Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defence (2014).
2014 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
Prof. Robert Warrior speaks about his time studying under Edward Said and the need to rethink Said's idea of the minority imperative in the context of Indigenous thought and literature and the aftermath of Prof. Steven Salaita's unjust firing from a tenured position at the American Indian Studies Program at UIUC.