11/16/2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
7pm-10pm
Location: 7th Floor Peace Lounge, OISE Building
The Indigenous Education Network and The Transformative Learning Center are pleased to present:
Aboriginal Film Night
A monthly series of screenings of Aboriginal films at OISE, University of Toronto
ADMISSION IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
This month's film features Gary Farmer in:
‘Heater’
Two homeless men try to return a recently stolen base-board heater for the refund. Unsuccessful, they must find other ways to survive the night. (*From IMDB)
Please see poster attached
If you have any questions email: [email protected]
November 22
Adult Education and Community Development Program presents:
Palestine and “The Internationals”: Tracing the Domestication of Solidarity Post-Oslo
by Linda Tabar
Friday November 22, 2013
4:30-6:00pm
Location: Room 7-105, OISE Building
This paper examines the rise of the local concept of the internationals, which emerged during the second Palestinian intifada, as a way to critically explore some of the ways in which solidarity with the Palestinian struggle has been domesticated and transformed in the context of both the Oslo “peace process,” its pacification of the Palestinian liberation movement, and the neoliberal and US imperial hegemonies that have reframed transnational solidarity. Tracing the origins of this concept, the paper identifies the way local forces and an assemblage of transnational capillary forms of power linked to US empire have contributed to disconnecting solidarity from a critique of overlapping systems of domination and our locations within them. It looks at how this is producing problematic recolonising relationships, where what happens in the name of solidarity not only reenacts white privilege, but reproduces Zionist settler colonial hierarchies and its racialised colonial order. The paper contrasts this with the militant tradition of solidarity that was created by the third world liberation movements in the 1970s. Examining the Palestinians movements and forces that are reclaiming the idea of solidarity as alliances that are built around a shared commitment to oppose settler colonialism and other overlapping systems of oppression, the paper lays out some of the requirements for rebuilding these relations, and points to how these forces are building an insurgent transnational solidarity from below.
Linda Tabar holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI), University of Toronto working with Professor Mojab. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of Middle East Studies, Political Economy, and Post-Colonial Studies. Before joining WGSI she led a research programme on alternatives to mainstream development and neoliberalism, at the Centre for Development Studies, Birzeit University. Dr Tabar’s writings on memory, Palestinian politics, struggle and the pacifying effects that the international aid regime have had on the Palestinian national movement have appeared in various journals and edited volumes.
Contact:
Professor Shahrzad Mojab
