This article on early modern slavery in western India was years in the making and probably the piece I have invested most in in my academic career. Thanks to all the colleagues over the years who have helped me think through this piece. đïž www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"But if we are to think about the writing itself, and not just what it signifies, that Coates has marked himself so forcefully on the side of the Palestinians, I am not exactly sure what to make of âThe Message,â which, more than anything, is about the moral conversion of a famous writer."
critical conversation here
Isabella Hammad's 2023 Edward Said memorial lecture was about narrative turning points. But after Oct 7th she had her own turning point & wrote an afterword that reorients herself to her own speech. We discuss both today Audiođ»: tinhouse.com/podcast/isab...
Todayâs conversation with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book is the speech she delivered for the Edward Said Memorial Lecture in...
So proud of my student for their first publication about their Native heritage: "The Untold Story of Aleutian Survival, Language, and Colonial Devastation"
I am going to tell you a story. It is a story of pain, bloodshed, resilience, and survival. It is a story passed down in my family through oral tradition that runs through my veins. It is my history.
I cannot bear to watch it but I am placing it here for the record.
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
Unconfirmed news that they put a camera in Butler Library stacks at the shelf-marks for Palestine Studies. The crime is in the thinking and the being.
Wow, it is already out there in the world!
Don't miss today's episode, a live recording of my conversation with two of the most brilliant writers & thinkers, Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli, as part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture, September 15th in New York City Audiođ»đ„: tinhouse.com/podcast/jewi...
As part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture, I moderated a conversation between Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand this September in New York City. Both Dionne and Adania have been on the...
November 8, "Histories & Worlds Unbound" - conference honoring Gary Y Okihiro at Yale ritm.yale.edu/events/histo... with Moon-Ho Jung, Pawan Dhingra, Sunny Liu, Courtney Sato, Roderick Ferguson, Erica Edwards, Minh Vu, Chandan Reddy, Natalie Diaz, Janis Jin, Kyle Kajihiro, Manu Karuka and more!
