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Global South Critique & UC-Anticolonial Marxism present
Graduate Workshop: Afterlives of the Tricontinental
May 23, 2025 | UC Irvine: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010
RSVP (encouraged)
9:15 AM Breakfast
9:45AM Opening Remarks: Prof. Charmaine Chua, UCSB
Panel 1 10:15-11:45AM
Discussant: Prof. Yousuf Al-Bulushi, UCI
Michael Mirer, UCLA. “Abolition as Antifascism in Angela Davis’s Thought.”
Kendrick Manymules, UCB. “Amílcar Cabral in Diné Country: the Navajo Nation, 1966-1972.”
Jensine Raihan, UCI. “New Human Capacities Necessary to Realize Emancipation.”
Semassa Boko, UCI. “War /\ Resistance, Datum, Dance.”
Panel 2 12-1:30PM
Discussant: Prof. Wendy Matsumura, UCSD
Rowan Powell, UCSC. “Nationalism, Anti-colonialism and Legacies of the Diggers.”
Randy Omar, UCI. “Pinnacle Tool of Anticolonialism: AK-47, Guerrilla Fighters and Banana Clips. ”
Melissa Sanford, UCI. “Insights from an Anti-Colonial Marxist Historiography.”
Uttara Chaudhuri, UCB. “Tagore, Marx and Aesthetic Labor.”
Lunch 1:30 PM
Panel 3 2:30-4PM
Discussant: Prof. Charmaine Chua, UCSB
Robin Jones, UCSC. “The Making of the Communist Opposition in Ba’athist Syria.”
Pranav Gulukota, UCLA. “Internationalist Consciousness in the Marxist Movements of South India, 1920-1960.”
Suleiman Hodali, UCLA. “Palestine & the Futures of Communisms Past: Anti-Colonial Universalism in Jabra Nicola.”
4 PM Coffee
4:30PM Keynote: Prof. Yogita Goyal, UCLA. “Race, Caste, and Class: On Failure and Comparison.”
6 PM Dinner
Sponsors: UCHRI, UCI School of Humanities, UCI Comparative Literature, Postmodern Culture, UCI International Center for Writing and Translation
RSVP (encouraged)
Contact:
Ashwin Bajaj: bajaja1@uci.edu
Gayatri Mehra: gmehra@uci.edu