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...
On 4 December, the University of London was granted an injunction from the High Court that prohibits ‘persons unknown (including students of the University of London) from ‘entering or remaining upon the campus and buildings of University of London for the purpose of...
On March 22nd, 2013 the Employment Tribunal (UK-London) rendered judgment in the case of Fraser v University & College Union (UCU). Ruling in favour of UCU, the Tribunal's judgment brought immense relief to UCU members, BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions)...
The subversion of law begins with the reduction of politics to a crime. What is never questioned is the bourgeois state of law upon which modern...
The taxi took an alternate route to the airport that day, the day before the Queen’s Jubilee parade, to avoid the very early morning rehearsals of military personnel, horses, and others involved in orchestrating the impending celebrations. Arriving at my destination...
The release of Wim Wender’s film Pina presents us with an occasion to consider what dance, as an art form and practice, can offer us by way of imagining new ways of being in the world. Unlike other art forms, such as literature or painting, dance as a medium through...
At a recent workshop organised by the Westminster International Law and Theory Centre, Doreen Massey and David Harvey both spoke about space, spatiality, and politics. While there are many significant differences in the intellectual projects of these two sages of...