Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/10/2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location
L.R. Wilson (LRW) Concert Hall

Overview

How do oppressed people survive and surpass their oppression through affective investments in cultural projects of empowerment? With special reference to the psychic life of resistance in Palestine, this talk explores the wager on affect as a nonviolent path to decolonial struggle and solidarity in a world in which nuclear deterrence and military aggression continue to produce and reproduce all aspects of life on planet earth.

Speakers

Nouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Fordham UP, 2023) & Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP, 2011 & paperback 2015), and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects as well as The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP, 2013).