<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class=""><i class="">THIS THURSDAY - NOT TO BE MISSED</i><b class=""><br class=""> =============================<br class=""> Tariq Ali - "The Broken Ladder: <br class=""> The Global Left Fifty Years After 1968"</b></p><div class="text_exposed_show"><p class=""> March 29, 7:30pm<br class=""> 210 Levis Faculty Center </p><p class="">
At the end of the Cold War, the notion of revolution seemed to have
been placed among the relics of history. Francis Fukuyama’s “end of
history” and Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” emerged as
bold, alternative frameworks to imagine the course of history after the
age of political revolutions had come to an end. Then, the so called
Arab Springs and the re-emergence of radical narratives of
transformation, from Ukraine to Venezuela, have forced intellectuals and
politicians to reconsider the actuality and the meaning of revolutions
in the age of globalization.</p><p class=""> Also,========================<br class=""> Joint Area Centers Symposium (JACS) <br class=""> "Revolutions: Past and Futures of Radical Transformations"</p><p class=""> March 30, 9:30am-6:30pm<br class=""> Levis Faculty Center, Music Room</p><p class="">
The symposium will be articulated around 4 themes: 1) religion and
revolution, 2) anti-colonialism, 3) violence and transformation, and 4)
gender, race, minorities and revolution. The goal of the symposium is to
bring experts from different disciplines and different geographical
areas to articulate the productiveness or the anachronism of the concept
of revolution in multiple cultural contexts. Scholars from and experts
on China, India, Latin America, Europe and Africa will provide a truly
transnational perspective to the symposium.</p></div></body></html>