Revolution 1/13 | The Congress of Black Writers and Artists (1956 and 1959) and the Bandung Conference (1955)
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Writings from the Paris, Rome, and Bandung Conferences
including “Princes and Powers” by James Baldwin; “Racism and Culture” and “Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom” by Franz Fanon; “Inside and Outside the Whale, ‘Bandung’, ‘Rwanda’, Postcolonial Studies” and “In the Wake of Colonialism and Modernity” by Biodun Jeyifo; and “Tradition and Industrialization: The Plight of the Tragic Elite in Africa” by Richard Wright.
Columbia University, Jerome Greene Annex
6PM-8PM EST
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Revolution 2/13 | Kwame Nkrumah, C.L.R. James, and George Padmore
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Adom Getachew and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution [1977] by C.L.R. James
Towards Colonial Freedom [1962] by Kwame Nkrumah
The Gold Coast Revolution: The Struggle of an African People from Slavery to Freedom [1953] by George Padmore
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
Columbia University
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Revolution 3/13 | Antonio Gramsci and the “engaged” philosopher
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Étienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Prison Notebooks [1947] by Antonio Gramsci (excerpts)
Presentation des Temps Modernes [1945] by Jean-Paul Sartre
Qu’est ce que la littérature in Situations II [1948]; What is Literature? [1950] by Jean-Paul Sartre
Préface de Orphée Noire [1949]; Black Orpheus [1964-1965] by Jean-Paul Sartre
Columbia University
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Revolution 4/13 | The Combahee River Collective Statement
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective [2017] by
Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor
Columbia University
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Revolution 5/13 | Rosa Luxemburg in Conversation with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Eduard Bernstein
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Amy Allen and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg
Columbia University
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Revolution 6/13 | Stuart Hall, Manning Marable, and Critical Race Theory
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Kendall Thomas and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Familiar Stranger and “Culture, Resistance, and Struggle” by Stuart Hall
“The Third Reconstruction: Black Nationalism and Race in a Revolutionary America” by Manning Marable
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Revolution 7/13 | George Jackson, Albert Woodfox, Paul Redd and Revolutionary Writings and Praxis
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Joy James, Darryl Robertson, Albert Woodfox, Paul Redd, and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Soledad Brother and Blood In My Eye by George Jackson,
Solitary by Albert Woodfox,
Writings on the Short Corridor Collective, and
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings by Joy James
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Revolution 8/13 | Becoming Numerous: Legacies of Queer and Trans Rebellion
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Che Gossett, Jack Halberstam, and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
The Stonewall Reader
Why We Fight by Vito Russo
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Revolution 9/13 | Hans-Jürgen Krahl, the SDS (Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund) Student Movement, and the Frankfurt School
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
6PM (Frankfurt time GMT+1 in person) / 1 PM EST(NYC time)
Martin Saar and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Constitution and Class Struggle (excerpts on Adorno, a political autobiography, on the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, and on the Philosophy of History and the Authoritarian State) by Hans-Jürgen Krahl,
the Adorno-Marcuse correspondence on the SDS,
and the dossier published by Elia Zaru, Fabio Angelelli and Dave Mesing in Viewpoint Magazine
The Institute for Social Research at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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