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Blueprints for the Undercommons | To Forge a Strike

April 14, 2022
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
America/New_York
The Milstein Center at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Lower Level - LL002
Blueprints for the Undercommons | To Forge a Strike: The Significance of Chaos

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/to-forge-a-strike-the-significance-of-chaos-tickets-309869426797

Featured guests- Sareeta Amrute, Navyug Gill, Murali Shanmugavelan

Presentations and discussion on the necessity of disarray within local and global labor movements, including Indian Farmer’s Protest and racial/caste strikes in tech. Readings will be provided.

About this event

The Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with the support of Africana Studies at Barnard, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, AAADS and IRAAS at Columbia University presents

Blueprints for Undercommons: Local and Global Wildness 

April 14th-16th, 2022 at Columbia University and Barnard College

Join our three day series of work study groups, presentations, film screenings and musical performances, showcasing, studying, and discussing global events and movements that have been understood as wild and incomprehensible, forms of ‘acting out,’ or as instantiating periods of disorientation.

A three day series of work study groups, presentations, film screening and musical performances showcasing, studying and discussing global events and movements that have been understood as wild, incomprehensible, forms of ‘acting out,’ or as instantiating periods of disorientation.

Thursday, April 14 6:30pm-8:00pm EST
“To Forge a Strike: The Significance of Chaos”
Location: Lynn Chu L002 Milstein, Barnard College
Virtual and In-person event. In-person attendance limited to Columbia and Barnard affiliates. Registration required.
Featured guests- Sareeta Amrute (U. Washington), Navyug Gill (William Paterson University), Murali Shanmugavelan (SOAS U. London)
Presentations and discussion on the necessity of disarray within local and global labor movements, including Indian Farmer’s Protest and racial/caste strikes in tech. Readings will be provided.

This series is being sponsored by the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society with the support of Africana Studies (Barnard), the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (CU), AAADS (CU), and IRAAS (CU)

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