Anticolonial Liberation Movements:
From Algeria to Palestine

Online event
Thursday, March 26 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm EDT

Sponsored by ISA RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

"Join us for an engaging 90-minute webinar exploring the historic and contemporary connections between liberation movements across the Global South. This session situates the Palestinian liberation movement(s) within the broader context of anti-colonial struggles that emerged since the 1950s, highlighting the ideological, material, and symbolic influence of the Algerian revolution on movements worldwide."

Speakers:

Anaheed Al-Hardan – Educator and sociologist whose research focuses on anticolonial social practices and knowledge-making across the Global South. She is the author of Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (Columbia University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Anticolonialism and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Her current project traces African Asian anticolonial networks during the Bandung era.

Hamzah Baig is a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in December 2023. Bridging West Asian and African history, his manuscript (in progress) explores questions of revolutionary movement-building, Third World Marxism, settler colonialism, and postcolonial state formation through the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962) and its global reverberations.

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