The DDGC Germanists for Palestine Research Cooperative and the Coalition of Feminists in German Studies (FiGS) BDS Working Group warmly invite you to join us for a virtual series of events in collaboration with groundbreaking scholars Anna Younes and Hanna Al-Taher: Intifada Talks: Colonization, Uprisings, and Revolutionary Thought.

Intifada Talks highlights anti-imperial thought reaching beyond the conventional boundaries of German Studies. Each virtual roundtable brings together writers, researchers, artists, and/or filmmakers from around the world to tackle issues of empire and resistance from Turtle Island to Congo, documenting both colonial continuities and transnational strategies of solidarity. Our roundtables focus on topics such as Palestinian liberation and the Black radical tradition, settler-colonialism and Indigeneity, anti-imperialism and state violence, counter-terrorism and counter-insurgencies, international human rights law, and more.

Please join us on July 8 at 12:30 Eastern Time / 8 pm Iran Standard Time for the third event in our series, a conversation about Colonialism, Imperialism, and National Sovereignty, focusing on the significance of colonialism and imperialism as conceptual frames for understanding the primary obstacles confronting movements for justice in the global South today, including the impact of imperialist wealth extraction and underdevelopment on domestic political possibility and the class character of state repression across the global color line.

Joining us for the first time will be Helyeh Doutaghi and Bikrum Gill, two scholars whose work offers valuable analytical tools to help us move beyond umbrella categories like “authoritarianism” by situating instead phenomena like the resurgence of fascism in the West or Iran’s assertion of national sovereignty within ongoing dynamics of colonial and imperial violence.

Helyeh Doutaghi is a scholar of international law and political economy, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tehran, as well as a journalist whose reportage, including the multipart documentary series Still, Minab, has appeared on Vocal Politics, Jedaal English and other outlets.

Bikrum Gill is a scholar of political economy, currently Lecturer of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales, and author of the book The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature and Accumulation.