Apr 24 2025

Teach-in: Transnational Solidarity, Student Organizing and the War in Sudan

2025 Grace Holt Celebration

April 24, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Central Standard Time

This teach-in will link the current war in Sudan to other forms of imperial and genocidal violence around the globe. How do capitalism, colonialism and imperialism link seemingly disparate wars and genocides? What forms of resistance and organizing are we witnessing against militarized state violence in Sudan and beyond? What lessons can students in particular draw from these forms of resistance as they mobilize against fascist forces at home and organize in solidarity with movements and communities elsewhere? What can transnational solidarity look like beyond and against a reliance or reification of nation states and state power?

This event is a part of the 2025 Grace Holt Celebration programming and is co-sponsored by UIC Global Middle East Studies. 

 

COVID safety:

UIC does not require masking; however, we are asking that all attendees wear a mask. This is an accessibility measure for chronically ill/immunocompromised people and those living interdependently with them. Black Studies will have extra masks on hand the day of the event.

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Date posted

Mar 20, 2025

Date updated

Mar 20, 2025

Speakers

Dr. Nisrin Elamin | Assistant Professor of Anthropology & African Studies at the University of Toronto | Keynote Speaker

Nisrin (she/her) is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land, Capital and Empire-making in central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati investments in land and community resistance to land dispossession in the agricultural Gezira region. In addition to scholarly articles, Nisrin has published and co-written several op-eds for Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, Okay Africa, Hammer and Hope and the Egypt Independent. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator, organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also the co-founder of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which formed in the aftermath of the current war to support local emergency response rooms (ERRs) and other mutual aid networks leading relief efforts in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.