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Description:

The Department of African American Studies and welcome all to attend this virtual event sponsored in part by the John B. Slaughter Endowment Lecture Series. 

This presentation offers a conversation about racism and coloniality in past and present-day ideas, practices and discourses on solidarity beyond borders. Rather than as glitches or occasional aberrations enacted by actors of ill-will, they are understood as constitutive features of the global order, including the aid industrial complex.

The aim of this talk is to collectively think through the implications of engaging decolonial, antiracist and abolitionist thought to the politics and practices of solidarity. I engage epistemic Blackness
as a methodology, i.e. I engage knowledges from experiences and sense-makings from peoples of African descent, and end up with centring the concepts of dignity, retreat and repair radically rethink what solidarity beyond borders, coloniality and racism could look like.
AS), South Africa.

About The Speaker:

Dr. Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (1979) is a Belgian/Rwandan International Relations scholar and former journalist. She is Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics in the
Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK and Senior Research Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (JI

Flyer: https://go.umd.edu/rutazibwaposter2022