Pedagogy and The Freedom School – An Interview with Dr. Felice Blake: Professor Felice Blake shares some of her thoughts on pedagogy, pra.cticing scholarship that is engaged with the community, and the myths of colorblindness in the humanities fields. Blake tells us about her experience growing up in Santa Barbara, leaving, and eventually returning to […]Read More
Global Activism and the Particulars of Combating Police Violence – An Interview with Dr. Jean Beaman: Professor Jean Beaman’s extensive fieldwork and research on immigration, racism, citizenship, and police violence in Paris, France combined with her own experiences of growing up, living in, and eventually working and teaching in the United States has given depth […]Read More
Episode 1: Tunisia’s Amatuer Autocrat: The Rise of Kais Saied This episode delves into the current state of democracy in Tunisia and traces the country’s political journey since the Arab Spring. It focuses on the role of societal groups, the political dynamics at play, and how President Saied rose to power. The episode aims to […]Read More
On October 31st, 2023, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, directed by Professor Paul Amar, hosted a live webinar international conference aimed at raising awareness about the currently unfolding war and crisis in Sudan and keeping the inspiring consciousness and leadership models of the Sudanese revolution of 2019 alive. In 2019, a popular […]Read More
All Podcasts Copied – Egypt’s Unique Sound: The Political Economy of Mahraganat Dance Omar Mansour April 24, 2024 Tunisia Series: Episode 2 – “Tunisia on the Global Stage” Omar Mansour April 24, 2024 On the Exilic Condition, Queerness as a Verb, and Writing through Omar Mansour January 9, 2024 Cops-Off Campus, Being in Community, and […]Read More
https://youtu.be/tFKEknKwzIU?si=5PDuKoe3Mty0PJpX On October 31st, 2023, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, directed by Professor Paul Amar, hosted a live webinar international conference aimed at raising awareness about the currently unfolding war and crisis in Sudan and keeping the inspiring consciousness and leadership models of the Sudanese revolution of 2019 alive. In 2019, a […]Read More
Episode 1 – Nubia Is Still Alive Today: Identity, Memory and Liminality in Displacement While enduring various waves of migration displacements and cultural and political marginalization, Nubians have been living in a liminal space of collective memory, nostalgia, and reconstructed identities. In Egypt, after the displacement of 1964, Nubians are now dispersed in a […]Read More
Future Infrastructure: From Research to Pedagogy Surojit Kayal Origin Last year in Spring 2023, my colleague and former fellow of the Future Infrastructure cluster, Stephen Borunda and I were fortunate to teach a class titled Deserts, Islands, and Other Energy Infrastructures at the UCSB College of Creative Studies through their Crossroads 2.0 fellowship program. We […]Read More
Egypt’s Unique Sound: The Political Economy of Mahraganat Dance Music This episode touches on the origins of Egyptian mahraganat music, a popular electro-street music, as well as discusses song production, media technologies, political dimensions, and distribution, both local and transnational. This episode will also look at the importance of Egyptian ashwaiyyat, or informal neighborhoods, as […]Read More