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Global Uprising 2020-2022

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Global Uprising Conference April 21-22, 2022  

We, at NYU’s Kevorkian Center, are hosting a two-day conference to cap off our Global Uprising series. In the Fall of 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for fourteen conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and practitioners. This series of conversations was above all an attempt to grapple with emergent forms of collective action. It was a call to step back and take stock, to learn from and with the social terrain of struggle all around us. It was a way of trying to come to terms with a present that no longer seems to be a time of uprising but a time that is uprising. We’re capping off with a two-day conference not as some kind of wrapping-up or a conceit to closure, but as an opportunity to delve deeper into some of the most stubborn questions; an invitation to keep thinking, talking, and acting, to keep learning from struggle. Learn more and register here.

 

Global Uprising - A year-long series 2020-2021:

We live in emphatically defiant times.  Our present seems defined not only by global uprising, but, even more decisively, by the open-endedness of global uprising.  To speak of uprising today is no longer to speak of an event or moment in time, but of a protracted, discontinuous temporality.  Uprising in many senses is our present.  Part of the way things just are.  If 2020 has so far felt at once strange and eerily familiar, it is in part because it bookends a full decade of open global revolt.  Here we are, yet again.  That year of “living dangerously” in 2010/2011, so associated with the “Arab revolts” and the “Occupy movement,” has turned out not to be a ruptural exception, but the start of a new norm; the opening of a long duration of uprising that has exposed and hastened the unravelling of the post-war global liberal order but in which no new decisive stabilization has emerged.  A decade later America’s cities, caught in the entangled knot of mass unemployment, a mismanaged pandemic, deepening dispossession, and relentless anti-Black violence are engulfed by an anti-racist uprising so widespread and intense as to probably have no local historical precedent.  And this time the stakes are that much starker, the forces of reaction that much stronger.

This is a decade that demands we rethink what constitutes uprising.  What do we call this discontinuous chain of forms of refusal, protest, disobedience, and flight? How do we historicize it? What kind of concepts might capture and make sense of the ubiquity of shared feelings of having had enough, of being unable to tolerate things as they are, of the willingness to put bodies and life on the line? How have modes of action and mediation changed across this decade? It is too easy and, surely, too facile to say we live in a post-revolutionary time in which large-scale transition is no longer possible—this itself might still be contested—and that the cycle of uprising is just that, a circular repetition in which little actually changes.  The onus instead is to rethink how we understand collective action and its effects today.

This series takes current the anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as a springboard for a set of workshops around global uprising.   We envisage these workshops as a series of open and incomplete conversations; not the presentation of finished ideas or work, but the thinking through together of a host of questions and ideas emerging from and responding to our present.

Please also see GLOBAL UPRISING (www.theglobaluprising.com) - a platform of student group works that extend these events and illustrate how these events were integrated in our teaching!

Spring 2021

January 26, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISING: POLICING AS POLITICS, POLICING AS WAR with Nadia Abu El-Haj (Columbia University), Paul Amar (UC Santa Barbara), Stuart Schrader (Johns Hopkins University) and Discussant Nikhil Pal Singh (NYU) | Watch the recording here

February 9, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISING: INSURRECTION AND REACTION: UPRISING AGAINST THE LEFT with Anthony Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College & CUNY Graduate Center), Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science), Alejandro Velasco (NYU), and Discussant Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental) Watch the recording here

February 24, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISING: SPACE & TIME I: CROWDS, BODIES, AFFECT with Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University), Frances Hasso (Duke University), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), and Discussant Gayatri Gopinath (NYU)| Watch the recording here

March 9, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISING: SPACE & TIME II: THE SQUARE AND THE COMMUNE with Joshua Clover (UC Davis), Dean Saranillio (NYU), Nazan Üstündağ (Independent Scholar), and Discussant Lenora Hanson (NYU)| Watch the recording here

March 23, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISNG: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING I: CARCERALITY, EXILE, DISAPPEARANCE with Madiha Tahir (Journalist), Randa Wehbe (Harvard University), Amina Zarrugh (Texas Christian University), and Discussant Sinan Antoon (NYU)| Watch the recording here

April 6, 2021 | GLOBAL UPRISNG: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS with Aslı Iğsız (NYU), Leopold Lambert (The Funambulist), A. Naomi Paik (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Discussant Paula Chakravartty (NYU)| Watch the recording here

Spring 2021 Events

Fall 2020

September 15, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: RACISM, RACIALIZATION, ANTI-BLACKNESS with Sophia Azeb (UChicago), Eve Troutt Powell (UPenn), Zoé Samudzi (UC-San Francisco); and discussant Fred Moten (NYU) | Watch the recording here

October 20, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: THE PROTRACTED PRESENT OF UPRISING Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths), Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne), Banu Bargu, (UC-Santa Cruz) and discussant Lisa Duggan (NYU) | Watch the recording here

October 29, 2020 | DIGITAL FORAYS AND GLOBAL UPRISING: AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL DISSENT With Amal Khalaf (Cubitt), An Xiao Mina (Berkman Center), Rebecca L. Stein (Duke University) and discussant Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU) |Watch the recording here
November 5, 2020 | DIGITAL FORAYS AND GLOBAL UPRISING: ARCHIVING A REVOLUTION: SMARTPHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA, & PROTEST with Omar al Ghazzi (LSE), Jasmina Metwaly (Artist/Filmmaker), Isra Ali (NYU) and discussant Marie Grace Brown (University of Kansas) | Watch the recording here 
November 15, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: INDIGENEITY, LAND, HERITAGE // HAWAIʻI & PALESTINE with Nida Sinnokrot (Artist), Sean Connelly (Artist), 'llima Long (University of Hawai'i), Nasser Abourahme (NYU) | Watch the recording here

November 17, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: DISPOSSESSION, EXTRACTION, PLUNDER with Brenna Bhandar (SOAS), Julia Elyachar (Princeton University), and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB), and Discussant TBD| Watch the recording here

November 24, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: PROTEST CYCLES AND REPRESSION IN IRAN with Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University), Manata Hashemi (University of Oklahoma), Peyman Jafari (Princeton University), M. Ali Kadivar (Boston College). Planned by The Iranian Studies Initiative NYU | Watch the recording here

December 8, 2020 | GLOBAL UPRISING: INEQUALITY, CORRUPTION, FINANCIALIZATION with Pınar Bedirhanoğlu (Middle East Technical University), Nils Gilman (Berggruen Institute), Adam Hanieh (SOAS) - Discussant: Aaron Jakes (The New School)| Watch the recording here

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