BDS and the remains of the University, a conversation on resistance with Judith Butler
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
How can students and academics in western universities meaningfully resist complicity in genocide?
How can we fight for universities that are anticolonial in their institutional operations and financial relationships?
How do we build links between queer, trans and anticolonial scholarship and politics?
Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality and Birkbeck Institute for Social Research are pleased to welcome world renowned scholar Judith Butler to discuss the challenges and opportunities for solidarity for Palestinian, queer, trans and other marginalised communities in a global context where dissent is increasingly repressed. We ask how this solidarity can be built from within universities ravaged by neoliberal reforms and where academic freedom is also under threat.
Professor Butler will be joined on a panel with Luke Williams, Dr Penny Newell, and BBK4Palestine and Sew for Palestine activist Rogelio Braga. The discussion will be chaired by Aimee Shalan, Director of Makan and Chair of the British Palestinian Committee.
The panel discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Contact name:
Karen Wells