Sowing and cultivating solidarities: Imagining transnational and translocal solidarities through research and pedagogy

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“Sowing and cultivating solidarities: Imagining transnational
and translocal solidarities through research and pedagogy” seeks to advance
the collaborative work of envisioning and enacting scholarly, artistric,
and pedagogical practices in search of justice. Jointly organized by the
Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle (ITSRC) and AGITATE!:
Unsettling Knowledges, this symposium aims to forge the labor of
collaborative research and pedagogical praxes based on critical and
creative dialogues among the invited speakers and artists, and the
participants. To deliberate on what makes scholarship, artistry, and
teaching transformative, we will convene two sessions that focus on
learning from resilient and creative epistemologies that refuse to be
silent, in spite of and despite settler colonial occupation and apartheid.
We enter this difficult realm through the following questions: How do we
learn from and teach about over seven decades of struggles in Palestine and
Kashmir? How can we learn from, converse, and grow with the poetic and
political energies of feminist and queer scholars/artists/activists? How
can such engagement help us to: (a) refuse disciplinary and geographical
borders that seek to contain resistance; (b) grapple critically with
occupations, imperialism, colonization and other forms of violence and
erasures; while (c) sowing and cultivating situated solidarities that forge
enduring relationships across struggles?