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Women-Centered Political Subjectivity

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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Join us in attending Michelle Téllez' talk "Women-Centered Political Subjectivity" about the activist women she writes about in her book Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in theSpaces of Neoliberal Neglect. Read more

Dr. Téllez

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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Dr. Téllez is an Associate Professor
at the University of Arizona,
teaching in the Department of
Mexican American Studies,
who writes about transnational
community formations, Chicana
feminism, and gendered migration. Read more

A Brown Bag with Rana Sharif

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm

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Rana Sharif's research take as her point of departure the impossibility of narration presented by Edward Said in his essay, “Permission to Narrate” (1984). In it, Said outlines the impossibilities of narrating the Palestinian experience due to the pejorative powers of Israel and the West’s “disciplinary communication apparatus” whereby Palestinian legibility is denied enunciative powers. While the violences of settler colonial logics are punitive for marginal communities, what she invites is a decolonial approach to reading that does not rely on seeking validation or permission. In her work on what she call digital poetics on Palestine, she meditates on methods of expression that do not center the settler colonial state. Rather, what she invites is an enunciative collective power that centers Palestinian sociality, restorative memory-work, and a decolonial practice in reading and writing Palestine.

PARTICIPANTS READ A PRE-CIRCULATED ARTICLE, WHICH THEY DISCUSS DURING THE WORKSHOP. RSVP IS REQUIRED.

 

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Transforming Justice: Movements & Visions of Liberation

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

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This panel brings together scholars and organizers who are at the forefront of revisioning how we think about justice. Our goal is to bring together practitioners whose work moves away from state-sanctioned and/or punitive methods of dealing with harm. From rethinking extractive economies and envisioning new relationships with the land, to abolition of prison systems, to redress for those harmed by sexual violence, this panel will help us develop a deeper vocabulary and vision for social change. Read more

5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference

Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 9:00am to 5:30pm

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The keynote speaker at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM will be geographer Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who co-founded Critical Resistance (http://criticalresistance.org) and is one of the preeminent scholar-activists on prison abolition. Dr. Gilmore will speak on her upcoming book Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything). The keynote speaker at 4:00 - 5:30 PM will be Chamorro environmental justice lawyer Julian Aguon, author of memoir/manifesto The Properties of Perpetual Light (https://www.julianaguon.com Read more

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