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GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”?  In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…

Film Screening and Discussion: Leila and the Wolves (1984)

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolvesis an exploration of the collective historical memory of Arab women. Shot over seven years, and in often treacherous conditions, Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatizations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and…

From Res Nullius to Terra Nullius: Revisiting Indigenous Histories, Legal Systems and Land Rights in the Naqab

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Panelists: Bashir Abu Manneh, Nadia Ben Youssef, Debby Farber Moderator: Nadia Abu El-Haj Respondent: Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Chair: Brian Boyd The Center for Palestine Studies, in partnership with the NGO Zochrot, and Forensic Architecture, will be holding a scholarly panel within the framework of the exhibition, Ground Truth: Testimonies of Destruction and Return in Al-Araqib, to…