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UCL Institute of the Americas Caribbean Seminar Series: Nicole Burrowes

The UCL [University College London] Institute of the Americas Caribbean Seminar Series 2023-2024 presents Nicole Burrowes, whose lecture, “Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labour Rebellions in British Guiana,” will take place on December 6, 2023, 5:30 to 7:00pm (12:30-2:00pm EST). (This online event is free with advance registration.) Description: “Seeds of Solidarity”… ....

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In solidarity with French academics targeted by the republic

In February 2021, French Higher Education, Research and Innovation Minister Frederique Vidal denounced what she calls Islamo-leftism and its gangrene effect on France [Sebastien Bozon/AFP]
We write to express our solidarity with the scholars, activists, and other knowledge producers who are targeted by the February 2021 statements by Frédérique Vidal, France’s minister of higher education, research, and innovation. In them, she denounced “Islamo-gauchisme” (Islamo-leftism) and its “gangrene” effect on France, and called for an inquiry into France’s national research organisation, the CNRS, and the university. The specific kinds of knowledge in question analyse and critique colonialism and racism, and support decolonial, antiracist, and anti-Islamophobia projects within the academy and on the streets. Vidal’s statements show the discomfort these challenges are causing the state, and hence the desire to repress them rather than engage them. ....

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