Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series

From Haymarket Books and Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series:

Haymarket Books is proud to join the lecture series and their other co-sponsors and to provide a virtual platform for this important talk.

Mohammed El-Kurd is an award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Palestine correspondent for The Nation and a Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California. He talks about representation and misrepresentation of Palestinians in the U.S.

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Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University, Deepa Kumar is the recipient of the Dallas Smythe award for her engaged scholarship and the Georgina Smith award for her work on gender and race equity. She is recognized as a leading scholar on islamophobia and empire both nationally and internationally, and her book Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire has been translated into several languages.

As an activist and then president of Rutgers’ faculty union, Deepa Kumar played a leading role in a contract campaign that led to a ground-breaking settlement, winning not only on bread and butter issues and job security for vulnerable faculty, but also around gender and race equity. She will discuss this experience of ‘bargaining for the common good’ in the context of recent strike victories in education and other sectors of the US workforce.

In such times the Lecture Series remains committed to providing a space for critical discussion and political organizing.

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Moustafa Bayoumi presents his talk "How Does It Feel To Be a Problem? Being Young and Muslim in America" as part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series at the Davis Center.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is an assistant professor in the African American Studies department at Princeton University. According to Taylor, the Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.

In her recent book, "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation," she offers a stirring and insightful analysis of the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality, such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. She argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

This is part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series.

Sponsored by:

International Socialist Organization Burlington Chapter • United Academics • Toward Freedom • Global Justice Ecology Project • Will Miller Green Mountain Vets for Peace • UVM Sociology Department