The ISARN Recordings

The ISARN Recordings

Posted on by Jessica Stites Mor

On the International Solidarity Action Research Network podcast, hosts Tony Alessandrini, Jessica Stites Mor, and Anna Bernard take you through a series of stories on the ins and outs of solidarity, from the frontlines, the sidelines, behind the scenes and in the quiet after the lights go down, to figure out better ways we can all stay grounded in solidarity. Click here to view all the episodes with program notes on our guests and more information about each episode: https://isarn.org/category/podcast/

In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both historically and globally, and argue for the value of affect in revolutionary thought and practice. Title inspired by Mariame Kaba.
  1. Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution
  2. Pictures of a Revolution: Lebanon 2019-2020
  3. Solidarity, Scholarship, and Struggle (Recorded March 2020)
  4. Black Activism and Internationalism in the United States (Recorded March 2020)
  5. The Tricontinental Movement and the Cultures of Solidarity (Recorded October 2019)
Decolonizing Higher Education: A Virtual Book Launch

Decolonizing Higher Education: A Virtual Book Launch

Posted on by Jessica Stites Mor

April 24th (9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT)

Featuring:

Tony Alessandrini, (CUNY), Decolonize Multiculturalism

Anna Bernard, (King’s College London) Decolonize Literature

Gary Wilder, (CUNY), Concrete Utopianism

With commentary by Jini Kim Watson (NYU) and Anita Girvan (UBC)

Moderated by Jessica Stites Mor (UBC)

Link:

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/65479566059?pwd=WU5UNUgvMW01Z0dPMzBCbS9McVovUT09

Solidarity Must Be Defended: new book edited by Eszter Szakacs and Naeem Mohaiemen

Posted on by Jessica Stites Mor

This book weaves together gestures and alignments within the visual arts around transnational solidarity during the Cold War era. We survey both grand initiatives and tragic misfires from an entangled, decolonizing world. These events, alliances, and actions are in dialogue and conflict with, among others, the third-way proposal of non-alignment and the rebellious energy of liberation movements. Our starting point was an online issue of Mezosfera magazine (“Refractions of Socialist Solidarity”), in dialogue with the film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017). The Hungarian premiere of both the magazine and the film was at the Metalworkers’ Union, correlating non-alignment with the trade union movement––two institutions with many inflection points in their complicated histories. Along with film screenings, a series of study groups looked at examples of cross-border solidarity work and the place of Eastern Europe within global histories. As we expanded the reading lists derived from the study group and magazine, a process of assemblage eventually metamorphosed into this anthology. The stories we found often proposed less sunny horizons––dark turns and missed connections came to the forefront. Nevertheless, through it all, many witnesses and participants of those events maintained optimism despite setbacks. Marking the end of a two-year research process, we present this anthology as a mid-journey pause and reflection:transnational solidarity is always worth celebrating and difficult to inhabit.

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https://solidaritydefended.org/shop

Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution 

Posted on by Jessica Stites Mor

In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both historically and globally, and argue for the value of affect in revolutionary thought and practice. Title inspired by Mariame Kaba.

Solidarity, Scholarship, and Struggle 

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This is our second installment with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). In this episode, Spencer considers the question of solidarity from several angles, discussing her collaborative scholarship and activism, the Black Panthers’ ways of working together and with other movements, and the scholar-activist Angela Davis.

Black Activism and Internationalism in the United States

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This is the first installment of a two-part conversation with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). This episode focuses on Spencer’s work on the history of Black organizing in the United States, looking particularly at the Black Panther Party and the anti-imperialist writer and activist Patricia Murphy Robinson.

The Tricontinental Movement and the Cultures of Solidarity

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What role does culture play in creating, transforming, and sustaining political solidarity? In this episode (recorded 2019), we speak to Anne Garland Mahler, author of From Tricontinentalism to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and International Solidarity (2018), and Debra Lennard, curator of the exhibition ‘Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print’ (2019), about their work on the cultural history of the Tricontinental movement.

Theme: Overlay by Kaira.