A Century of Revolutions Flyer

 

Schedule of Events

Thursday, March 29, 2018
210 Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL 61801)

7:30 PM  Keynote Address
Tariq Ali, “The Broken Ladder: The Global Left Fifty Years After 1968”
Introduction by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (University of Illinois)
Opening remarks by David Cooper (University of Illinois)

Friday, March 30, 2018
Music Room, 208 Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL 61801)

9:30 AM  Breakfast and Introduction
Opening remarks by Emanuel Rota (University of Illinois)

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM  First Panel
Chair: Erik McDuffie (University of Illinois)

  • Sunit Singh (University of Chicago), “The Eternal Return of 1848”
  • Munyaradzi Nyakudya (University of Zimbabwe), “The disjuncture between liberation and governance in Southern Africa: Unpacking the dynamics of transformation in ZANU PF”
  • Linda Herrera (University of Illinois), “Alain Badiou on the Egyptian Revolution, Seven Years On: A Short Film and Discussion”

12:00 – 1:00 PM  Lunch Break

1:00 – 3:00 PM  Second Panel
Chair: Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois)

  • Yiching Wu (University of Toronto), “How Mao’s Last Revolution Really Began: Toward A Conjunctural and Nonlinear History”
  • Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh), “Thinking Today’s Politics of Language with Paolo Virno and Christian Marazzi”
  • Asef Bayat (University of Illinois), “Understanding the Arab Revolutions”

3:00 – 3:30 PM  Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:30 PM  Third Panel
Chair: Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)

  • Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History), “Remembrance of Revolution Past: Recollections of Revolt and Labour in the Aftermath of the Soviet Union’s Collapse”
  • George Ciccariello-Maher (Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics), “The Cunning of Decolonization”
  • Michele Louro (Salem State University), “India and the Anti-imperialist World from the ‘Internationalist Moment’ to the Age of Bandung”

5:45 – 6:30 PM  Roundtable

  • Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)
  • Erik McDuffie (University of Illinois)
  • Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois)