Discussion of Maya Wind’s New Book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Geography Building 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please join us for a discussion of Dr. Maya Wind’s new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso Press), exploring how Israeli institutions of higher education are enlisted in Israel’s settler-colonial project. From campuses strategically built to anchor Israeli territorial expansion and Palestinian dispossession, through tailored degree programs for the military […]

Debt, Solidarity, Exchange with Dr. Salar Mameni

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Part of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice's Noted Scholar Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory In this talk Salar Mameni (Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics) considers the entangled notions of debt, […]

Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey

UBC Life Building (Old SUB) 6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please join us for a workshop on transfeminist solidarity and worldmaking, featuring the screening and discussion of “The Neighbour,” a transfeminist short film directed by Cedoy and produced by Lalu (esra) Ozban, and the seminar discussion of Asli Zengin’s Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World exploring the trans everyday […]