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Join the Social Movements Lab for two linked events on No More Deaths, a grassroots volunteer group that gives humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. Both events will have a free lunch provided. 1) On Wednesday, 2/21, 12pm-1pm, join us for a 'mapping' discussion based on readings of four essays about No More[...]
A discussion of Dalit women's activism, which will be facilitated by Anusha Hariharan and Jessica Namakkal. Dalit scholarly work and Dalit movements emerged alongside each other in India. Sharmila Rege published the book, _Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonios_, in 2006 - shortly after Dalit movements across the country came together to form national[...]
Join the Social Movements Lab for a dialogue with Lindiwe Dhlamini, visiting from South Africa. Lindiwe has been engaged in intersectional organizing in South Africa, across LGBTIAQ+ activism and student-led mobilizations at the University of Cape Town with the #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall, and #EndOutsourcing movements. Lindiwe is a fellow with the Human Science Research Council (HSRC), University of California Los[...]
How can mapping help movements? This event will share experiences from folks who integrate mapping with social movement organizing. Join us for presentations by members of the Counter-Cartographies Collective (Liz Mason-Deese and Tim Stallmann), the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (Manissa Maharawal and Erin McElroy), Felicia Arriaga, and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center (Della Pollock and George[...]
Join us for "Fallism and the Cultural Politics of Decolonisation: A Dialogue with Fees Must Fall Activists." Student and academic activists from South Africa will discuss challenges faced during Fees Must Fall protests, and the ongoing question of the decolonisation of education in South Africa and globally. The relation of the protests to place, gender,[...]
Join us for a workshop and a dialogue about migrant struggles on the EU's maritime frontier. Collaborating together since 2011, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani have sought to develop new methodologies to contest the violence of borders and enable more freedom of movement across the maritime frontier. In 2011, Heller and Pezzani co-founded Forensic Oceanography,[...]
Our next events deal with a migrant rescue project in the Mediterranean that Sandro Mezzadra and Michael Hardt (mostly Sandro) have been engaged with. In brief: the launching of a rescue ship (“Ionian Sea”) is part of an activist project to aid migrants in distress in the Mediterranean. By launching the ship we also seek[...]
Our next events deal with a migrant rescue project in the Mediterranean that Sandro Mezzadra and Michael Hardt (mostly Sandro) have been engaged with. In brief: the launching of a rescue ship (“Ionian Sea”) is part of an activist project to aid migrants in distress in the Mediterranean. By launching the ship we also seek[...]
Join us for two events on the struggles of the Algonquin in the context of broader First Nations struggles in Canada. We will be joined in the dialogue session by Shiri Pasternak, who is the author of Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State, about the Algonquins’ rejection of the federal land claims policy[...]
For our events in the Social Movements Lab on "Into the Black Box," a collective research project about logistics, spaces, and labor struggles, we will have a 'mapping' session on Wed., 10/31, 12pm, and a 'dialogue' session on Mon., 11/5, 12pm. Into the Black Box is a project of multidisciplinary and collective research that adopts logistics as[...]