What images of citizenship are emerging in relation to the processes of decolonization and deorientalization? Speakers including Saba Mahmood and Walter Mignolo will address this question at the second symposium
Cynthia Weber reflects on the first year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Imad Mansour voices a plea for the role of intellectuals in the Arab Spring, Vivenne Matthies-Boon’s offers an analysis of the entrenchment of the ‘clash of civilisation’ discourse, while Sara Azmeh Rasmussen calls for Mus
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Three days of live music with an eclectic line up of over twenty African, Brazilian & international artists across 3 stages, including host Gilberto Gil. Featuring Macy Gray, Roots Manuva, Hugh Masekela, Jorge Ben Jor, Femi Kuti and The Positive Force, Toumani Diabate, Fatoumata Diawara & many mor
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The Institute of South Asian Studies at the University of Singapore hosts the following workshop in January:
Afghanistan in Transition: Beyond 2014?
ISAS presents an academic and policy endeavour enabling
Economics of Good and Evil by Tomas Sedlacek
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Bomber County—The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War is the title of the first book by Daniel Swift, assistant professor of English at Skidmore College. Part memoir (Swift's grandfather was a British bomber in WWII) and part literary criticism, the book is an investigation into the poetry and bombing ca
The city of Oakland in California has become the militant heart of the occupations movement in the US following a brutal police crackdown. Alex Andrews for openDemocracy talks to Brad Johnson, an activist who lives and works in Oakland, about the events there, the general strike called by the occu
