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 recall but also implore us to reimagine Afro-Arab, Afro-Palestinian, or ‘third worldist’ assemblages and solidarities? What is or might be the place of Blackness and Black liberation in wider constellations of anti-racist and anti-colonial politics? Or, in solidarities against resurgent transphobic and homophobic politics? If the brief foray into a social-democratic revival has collapsed under the twin weight of racist nativism on the one hand and its own national limitations on the other, then how might we reimagine what’s left of internationalism?
Join the Kevorkian Center with Sophia Azeb, Eve Troutt Powell, ZoéSamudzi, and discussant Fred Moten on September 15, 2020, at 12:30 pm (EST) to think through these questions. To register for this event, please follow the link here or copy and paste into your browser: bit.ly/NYUKevoGU915
Tania El Khoury and her piece with Basel Zaraa, As Far as Isolation Goes which opens Wednesday. Class visit on November 30th.
As I mentioned, since this is a performance for one audience member at a time, it’s best to have students book their tickets themselves (for free) and we do have availability for this week still, so if everyone could send this ticket registration information to their students this week, that would be great as we think the tickets will start to go very quickly.
For all of you, if you haven’t sent me your ticket request, date and time, please take a look at available date and time from our website and send me two options and I can have these confirmed for you.
Institute Talk: Tania will also be doing an Institute Talk in conversation with Joanna Settle on September 29th at 6:30pm. The registration for this is now open if you would like to attend and/ or encourage your students to attend:
Class Visits: I know there are a few classes where we will need to record the sessions outside of the class timings due to time zones concerns. I will be in touch directly with the professors involved to set a date/ time.
Lastly, I am attaching the educational guide and artist curated bibliography below if you haven’t received it yet as a context for Tania’s work more generally.
Please let me know if you have any immediate questions and looking forward to collaborating with you all this semester.
Our website is now live, so students can register for tickets to Tania’s show as well as find out more information about Aakash and the rest of the performances.
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