Global Uprising: Afterlives of Uprising I: Carcerality, Exile, Disappearance

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

Global Uprising is a year-long series that revolves around one question: how do we rethink collective action from our present?  Taking the current anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as launching points for a set of workshops this series delves into the global coordinates of uprising today.  Read more about the series here.

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Global UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING I: CARCERALITY, EXILE, DISAPPEARANCE

Mar 23, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup

What happens to life after uprising? For many, this question is already present in the moments that precede uprising, and the responses to this question — often in the form of coercive violence -- end up shaping the ways uprising is remembered, narrated, and built upon long into the future. In these two panels, we will discuss how what happened next — in individual and collective terms -- has shaped and could shape our understanding of this protracted present of uprising. In the first panel, we will address how collective action continues in essence through individual struggles against the state as its tools of incarceration, torture, exile, and disappearance are employed in (often vain) attempts to dominate the narrative of movements against the state. We will ask: how does uprising get re-framed through the lives of the incarcerated, exiled, tortured, and disappeared? How can the narrative life of uprising avert or counter mediation through violence? Whose afterlives are we not telling at all, or often enough? In what ways should the experience of those lives most altered by uprising force us to reconsider the event of uprising in retrospect?

Join the Kevorkian Center with Madiha Tahir, Randa Wahbe, Amina Zarrugh, and discussant Sinan Antoon on March 23, 2021, at 12:30 pm (EST) to think through these questions and discuss these issues together.To register please follow the link here or copy and paste the link to your browser: bit.ly/NYUKevoGU323

She is the director of the short documentary Wounds of Waziristan, focusing on Pakistani survivors of drone attacks. She holds a masters degree in Near Eastern Studies from NYU and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Tahir has traveled extensively throughout Pakistan from Balochistan to Swat as well as to rural areas to report on the floods, Sufi music, the Baloch separatist movement, the salience of nationalism and religion, Islamist organizations and national electoral politics. She is co-editor of a volume, Dispatches from Pakistan with historian Vijay Prashad and editor Qalandar Bux Memon and a founding editor of Tanqeed, a magazine of politics and culture.

Her research is supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Palestinian American Research Center.  Randa is a policy member for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and an elected board member for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. From 2018-2020, she served on the executive board of Insaniyyat: The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. Prior to graduate school, Randa led the international advocacy team at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association in Ramallah for three years. She also holds an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a B.A. in International Development from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to kevorkian.center@nyu.edu by March 16, 2021. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. A captioned version of this presentation will also be made available within a month to our Youtube page.

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