30264 - Witnessing the Violences in and of Empire

Description

Empire is intertwined with multi-scalar violences, and people within the center and peripheries of its shadows are complicit. From the shutting down of protests around the world, the firing, doxing, and ruining – and at times, taking the lives - of intellectuals, and the apathy of war to mass murders, destruction of cultures, infrastructures and knowledges, and diplomatic ties and aid to imperial cores, imperial violences invade every aspect of life. This panel interrogates the complicities required for empire to flourish. Drawing on thinkers ranging from James Baldwin, June Jordan, Mahmoud Darwish, Stuart Hall, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and more, speakers will use the current moments we are witnessing, linking it to historical precedents and raising questions regarding the role of global racisms, genocides, gender and sexuality, activisms, transnational (im)mobilities etc to interrogate what lurks in the shadows of empire.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Witnessing the Violences in and of Empire

Presider

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Individual Presentations

• The Unchilding of Migrant Children - Mary Romero

• Colonizing Knowledge: The Hidden Hand of Settler Colonialism in Building a Higher Education Empire - Parker Martin, University of Michigan

• Deporting the Crisis: The Racial Banishment of Formerly Incarcerated Asian Americans in the Dragnet of Empire - Michael Nishimura, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Quotidian attachments to/and Imperial Violences: US Jews and Palestine’s Colonization - Melissa F. Weiner, College of the Holy Cross

• Negating Jewish Difference: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Westernization in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora - Andrew J. Shapiro, CUNY Graduate Center

Discussant

• Martin Manalansan

Session Organizer

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign