An intergenerational, transnational academic virtual event on race, law and the global pandemic, discussing the potential for radical change Host: Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) Organisers: Dr Brenna Bhandar (SOAS University...
A ONE-DAY WORKSHOPWednesday, November 6thB104, Brunei Building, SOAS10am - 5:30pm This workshop seeks to bring two different concepts into conversation: abolitionism and reparation. Abolitionism often remains a concept associated primarily with the movement for the...
❝ My family were survivors of life, yeah? This is not the only traumatic thing that’s happened to us that’s been on the news, et cetera, yeah? And we’re fighters naturally, yeah? So who do you argue with? Who do I argue with? This has been my stress this year, this...
Join us for the SOAS-BBK UCU Teach-Out 12–1 PM, March 8th SOAS Main Building Rashmi Varma (Warwick) "DISSENTING HISTORIES: FEMINISM AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM" Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS) "FEMINIST RESEARCH AND ACTIVISM" Halimo Hussain (SOAS SU Co-President) "AUDRE LORDE AND...
English version of interview with Brenna Bhandar* by Olivier Chassaing, translated by Chayma Drira for Période, the French online journal of Marxist theory, available here. Olivier Chassaing (‘OC’): By studying law, one can explore how capitalist societies rest upon...
You are cordially invited to the launch of Brenna Bhandar and Jonathon Goldberg-Hiller (eds) Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015) When: Thursday, 4th June 2015, 6:30pm...
Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms This two-day symposium explores the relationship between the material, cultural, psychic and symbolic dimensions and effects of dispossession. Building on a range of critical feminisms, the papers, collective...
We are not asking you for heroic action or to form freedom brigades. We are simply asking you not to be complicit in perpetuating the crimes of the Israeli state.Ali Abunimah, “After witnessing Palestine’s apartheid, Indigenous and Women of Color feminists...
This conference honors Professor Duncan Kennedy, one of the most influential legal theorists and left critics of our time. After teaching for more than four decades at Harvard Law School, Professor Kennedy announced his intention to retire. Kennedy’s brilliant...
The on-going struggle of the SOAS Cleaners for acceptable working conditions and equality in the workplace has received some media attention since its inception in 2007–2008. For a thorough and engaging analysis of the history of cleaners’ labour activism across the...