04/15/2021
Dear all,
The Graduate English Conference at Binghamton University, Shifting Tides Anxious Bordes, invites you to join our 2021 conference on 4/24 from 8:30 AM -6 PM(EDT). This year, our conference embraces the theme of "Persistence and Resistance: Possibilities of (Re)emergence." The discussion will be composed of scholars and thinkers from all over the world who explore the intersection of political and ecological emergencies while reflecting on resistance as well as survival strategies. Please see the schedule and organizing theme attached. The zoom links to these panels will be made available on our website https://shiftingtidesanxiousborders.weebly.com/conference-schedule-and-zoom-links.html.
We would like to bring your attention, especially, to the activist panel we are holding this year at 12 PM. The activists we invited for this roundtable session are from both Binghamton University and local activist networks. The activists will gather to share their insights of practicing activism in both their intellectual research and daily experiences.
We also invite you to join us for the keynote address by Dr. Manu Karuka at 5 PM (EDT). Author of 2019 Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, Dr. Karuka is an emerging scholar whose work contends the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy and details the work of transracial as well as transnational decolonization.
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Manu Karuka is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, and affiliated faculty with Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, where he has taught since 2014. His work centers a critique of imperialism, with a particular focus on anti-racism and Indigenous decolonization. He teaches courses on the political economy of racism, U.S. imperialism and radical internationalism, Indigenous critiques of political economy, and liberation. He is the author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). With Juliana Hu Pegues and Alyosha Goldstein he co-edited a special issue of Theory & Event, “On Colonial Unknowing,” (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2016) and with Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, and Sujani Reddy, he co-edited The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013).
