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IPRH Discussion on Radical Politics |
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by Scott Edwards
Email: scottisimo (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
13 Oct 2004
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- What is the trajectory of radical politics?
- What chracterizes the debates in the radical movement?
- What is the relationship between radicalism and the anti-globalization movement?
- What are the forms radical politics takes around the globe?
- How do race, class, and gender function in radical politics?
Come and hear some perspectives, and voice your own! |
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
presents
The Future of Radical Politics
A Discussion
PARTICIPANTS
* TARIQ ALI (Independent Historian, Writer, and Activist, London)
* SUNDIATA CHA-JUA (Director, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, UIUC)
CHAIR
* ELIZABETH ESCH (Mellon Fellow and Dept. of History, UIUC)
Tuesday, October 19
4:00 p.m.
Humanities Lecture Hall
IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue
Participants
TARIQ ALI has been at the forefront of radical politics, literature, and scholarship for several decades. A writer, historian, and activist based in London, he is the author of numerous influential books, including New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left (1972), Coming British Revolution (1972), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of the State (1983), Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher? In Praise of Socialism (1984), Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty (1985), The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2003), and Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq (2003). In addition, Ali is the author of the novels Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1996), Fear of Mirrors (1998), The Book of Saladin (1999), and The Stone Woman (2000).
SUNDIATA KEITA CHA-JUA is Director of the Afro-American Studies and Research Program and is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, from which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993. He previously taught in the history department and directed the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Dr. Cha-Jua received Advanced Certificates in Black Studies from Northeastern University in 1992 and from the National Council for Black Studies, Director's Institute in 1992. He is a member of several professional associations, including the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life & History, the National Council for Black Studies (National Board member), and the Organization of American Historians. His research interests include: African American Community Formation, Black Radicalism and Nationalism, Race and Racism, Historical Materialism, and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Dr. Cha-Jua is the author of America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915, (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and several scholarly articles in the Black Scholar, Journal of American History, Journal of Black Studies, Nature, Society & Thought, and Souls, among others journals.
ELIZABETH ESCH is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at UIUC. A scholar and activist, she completed a dissertation on the Ford Motor Company and its management of race and nation in the American empire.
Tariq Ali's visit is sponsored by the Department of History and MillerComm.
For more information, please contact the IPRH at 244-3344
or go online at www.iprh.uiuc.edu |
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