[Peace-discuss] Tariq Ali tonight and tomorrow

[David Green]

Tariq Ali will be talking about "The Clash of
Fundamentalisms" tonight at Allen Hall at 8. Tomorrow,
he will be at IPRH discussing the topic below. I think
it would be good if somebody from AWARE put in 2 cents
about the nature of radical politics in an academic
community, if you know what I mean. I won't be able to
attend.

David


The Future of Radical Politics
A Discussion

PARTICIPANTS

* TARIQ ALI (Independent Historian, Writer, and
Activist, London)
* SUNDIATA CHA-JUA (Director, Afro-American Studies
and Research Program, UIUC)


CHAIR

* ELIZABETH ESCH (Mellon Fellow and Dept. of History,
UIUC)

Tuesday, October 19
4:00 p.m.
Humanities Lecture Hall
IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue

Participants

TARIQ ALI has been at the forefront of radical
politics, literature, and scholarship for several
decades. A writer, historian, and activist based in
London, he is the author of numerous influential
books, including New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of
the International Radical Left (1972), Coming British
Revolution (1972), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of
the State (1983), Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?
In Praise of Socialism (1984), Indian Dynasty: The
Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty (1985), The Clash of
Fundamentalisms (2003), and Bush in Babylon: The
Recolonisation of Iraq (2003). In addition, Ali is the
author of the novels Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
(1996), Fear of Mirrors (1998), The Book of Saladin
(1999), and The Stone Woman (2000).

SUNDIATA KEITA CHA-JUA is Director of the
Afro-American Studies and Research Program and is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, from
which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993. He previously taught
in the history department and directed the Black
Studies Program at the University of Missouri at
Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State
University and Southern Illinois University at
Edwardsville. Dr. Cha-Jua received Advanced
Certificates in Black Studies from Northeastern
University in 1992 and from the National Council for
Black Studies, Director's Institute in 1992. He is a
member of several professional associations, including
the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life &
History, the National Council for Black Studies
(National Board member), and the Organization of
American Historians. His research interests include:
African American Community Formation, Black Radicalism
and Nationalism, Race and Racism, Historical
Materialism, and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Dr.
Cha-Jua is the author of America's First Black Town,
Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915, (University of Illinois
Press, 2000) and several scholarly articles in the
Black Scholar, Journal of American History, Journal of
Black Studies, Nature, Society & Thought, and Souls,
among others journals.





		
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