Dr. Nadine Naber delivers the lecture The Radical Potential of Mothering for Abolition, Anti-Militarism, and Transnational Feminist Solidarity as part of Hacking the Syllabus: Critical Solidarities. Following the lecture, she appeared in conversation with Dr. Alisa Bierria.
The three-part series Hacking the Syllabus: Critical Solidarities shares powerful perspectives of educator-activists and resources they’ve created, syllabi, to equalize access to knowledge and disseminate paths for learning. Dr. Naber is a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Bierria is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. (1 hr., 17 min.)
Zoom Webinar via Facebook Live — Dr. Nadine Naber joins Matthew Jaber Stiffler and Moustafa Bayoumi for a conversation about the historical roots of orientalist depictions in Western. This webinar was Part 1 in a series entitled Changing the Narrative hosted by the National Network for Arab American Communities. (1 hr., 16 min.)
Madine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, speaks on Arab American Studies, Palestine, and the relationship with Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and cross-movement building.
Listen to Dr. Naber speak at 0:45 to 0:55, and again at 1:30 to 1:35.
INCITE!, a national radical feminist of color organization, was founded in 2000. Over its two-decade history, INCITE! has envisioned, articulated, and promoted what Angela Y. Davis has described as abolition feminism, a liberatory vision of a world free from all forms of violence, including those produced by carceral logics and systems of surveillance, policing, punishment, and exile. Abolition feminism envisions “a society based on radical freedom, mutual accountability, and passionate reciprocity. In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence. It will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all people” (from the 2002 INCITE!-Critical Resistance Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex).
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Abolition feminism, and its roots in grassroots anti-violence organizing by women, trans and gender nonconforming people of color, is particularly relevant in this moment of heightened attention on movements advocating abolition and resisting incarceration of our communities–and of backlash rooted in carceral feminism.
Join founders and generations of leaders of INCITE! and Angela Y. Davis for a discussion of the origins, genealogies, and futures of abolition feminism on April 30th, the 20th anniversary of INCITE!’s founding, from 6 – 9 pm ET.
This event featured a panel conversation among scholars from UIC on broader contexts of police brutality, state violence, and abolition. Join us to learn and build a mass movement for abolition! The speakers are:
Dr. Barbara Ransby, Professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies & African American Studies
Dr. Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies
Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice
Dr. Susila Gurusami, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice
Dr. Ronak Kapadia, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
Dr. Rahim Kurwa, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice
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Following a statement made after the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, between July 10th and July 24th, 2020, Mizna with the US-based organizations including the Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota, and Arab Resource and Organizing Center will host a series of online panels in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Panels in Arabic, English, and Farsi will address the history, present, and future of joint struggles between Black and non-Black South West Asian and North African communities, as well as solidarities and coalitions between SWANA communities and Black American communities in the United States. The series will also interrogate anti-Black racism in the SWANA region and its diasporas and acknowledge the ways in which the SWANA communities have contributed to, profited from, and perpetuated forms of anti-Black racism and violence while being subjected to anti-Arab, anti-Iranian, and anti-Muslim violence both locally and globally.
Anti-Black Racism in Southwest Asia/North Africa and Diaspora
In this talk, Professor Naber will analyze the limits and possibilities of coalitional BIPOC movements in the U.S. that have strived to end anti-Blackness and U.S. imperialism simultaneously. Professor Naber will develop her analysis through the lens of decolonial feminisms while focusing on the significance of coalitional politics, or “joint struggle,” to the field of Middle East Studies.
Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World Video
Video 1: VLC As For Protocols Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
Video 2: VLC As For Protocols Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
For International Women’s Day, the fifth As for Protocols seminar explores the theme of revolutionary feminisms, and the multi-scalar and trans-historical practices they embody. In doing so, we examine what protocols we want and need for remaking the world, especially in the context of social reproduction, gendered labor, care and kinship, solidarity, and internationalism. We pay special attention to how revolutionary feminist protocols work across space and time through political education, forms of organizing, movement history, gender representation, and collaborative creativity. The seminar is convened with New School faculty Ujju Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning, Schools of Public Engagement, and Laura Y. Liu, Associate Professor of Global Studies and Geography, Eugene Lang College. Together, Aggarwal and Liu also run Praxis Tank, a working group housed within Global Studies at The New School, dedicated to elevating knowledge born from freedom struggles; and the practices, pedagogies, and experiments that advance collective transformation and movements for liberation.
Participants Those registered and Loira Limbal, director, producer, Senior Vice President for Programs, Firelight Media Nadine Naber, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Paula X. Rojas, Midwife & Community Organizer, Embody Transformation/Mama Sana Vibrant Woman Robyn Spencer, historian, Associate Professor, History, CUNY, Lehman College Convened with Ujju Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning, Schools of Public Engagement, and Laura Y. Liu, Associate Professor of Global Studies and Geography, Eugene Lang College.
This seminar is presented in partnership with Praxis Tank and supported, in part, by the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy fund.
Dr. Nadine Naber, associate professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will illustrate how forms of state violence that currently shape the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are feminist concerns and how feminist movements have helped expand the possibility of building alternative futures. Drawing on examples from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, she will focus on activist frameworks such as radical mothering, activism and coalitional consciousness.
Join UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and co-sponsor Moraine Valley Community College for an event launching the latest report by IRRPP that captures the conditions and experiences of Arab Americans in the Chicagoland area. The report uses demographic research, surveys, focus group data, as well as expert commentaries by organizers and academics to analyze how systemic inequities and anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism affect the lives of Arab Americans in employment, education, health care, housing, and policing. The report engages with the diversity of experiences among Arab American communities and their common challenge in navigating being at once hypervisible as a result of commonplace stereotypes as well as invisible due to being classified as white by government agencies and due to the general lack of knowledge about Arab Americans in our society.
This report was created with funding support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a UIC Award for Creative Activity and produced in partnership with several Chicagoland Arab American community organizations: UIC’s Arab American Cultural Center, Arab American Action Network, Arab American Family Services, Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance, Sanad Social Services, and the Syrian Community Network. By mapping the challenges facing these communities and making proposals for change, the report will be used as a resource for advocates working to build strong and vibrant Arab American communities.
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