Bruce Robbins covers the recent MLA debate and resolution on Israel’s denials of entry of U.S. academics to the West Bank.
Read his full article here.
Category: The b2o Review
The b2o Review is a non-peer reviewed publication, published and edited by the boundary 2 editorial collective and specific topic editors, featuring book reviews, interventions, videos, and collaborative projects.
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on the ASA Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University) discusses the scope of responsibility institutionalized academia must embrace, and what “academic freedom” means to freedom itself, in light of the American Studies Association’s recent stance on the systematic silencing of Palestinian academia, and the polemics that have followed: “Must the actual separation wall in Israel become a reality in our institutions, blocking our view, disappearing Palestinians and burying the realities of the occupation?”
Read her full opinion piece here.
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cover photo: A sign on the front door of a Palestinian house which reads: “I have a clear conscience, do you? This home is free of products produced in [Israeli] Settlements.”
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Miriam Cooke writes on Imperial Qatar
Continuing The Tunisian Dossier edited by R. A. Judy and extending the work of al-Insāniya: Thinking Revolutionaries, b2 a series of extended posts focused on what has been called the “Arab Spring,” Miriam Cooke writes on Qatar. Read her article, “The New Empire,” here.
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Wlad Godzich, “Aisthesis before Theoria: Grappling with the Un(re)cognized”
Wlad Godzich was to have spoken in Taiwan at a conference convened by a friend of b2, Allen Chun. The conference title was "The Unthinkable—Thinking Beyond the Limits of Culture" and was held at the Institute
of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December
13-14, 2008. For medical reasons, Wlad could not attend but he presented his lecture by video link. To view this talk, visit the following URL:
http://128.114.188.55/Movies/godzich_presentation.movWlad’s paper deals with theory in the contemporary world and contains considerable comment on Walter Benjamin and Orham Pamuk. Thanks for Allen Chun for circulating this link and to Wlad Godzich for permission to post it here.
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Teachers Against Occupation
This note from David Lloyd:FYI: an organization called teachers against Occupation
has formed in response to the assault on Gaza.
It is based for now at University of Minnesota. They encourage others to form local chapters
and communicate through their site:htttp://www.teachersagainstoccupation.blogspot.com <http://www.teachersagainstoccupation.blogspot.com/>
An Open Letter to Obama is there which you are invited to
sign if you are interested. If so,
please send a note to teachers.against.occupation@gmail.com. I hope that we can work collectively on
strategies to change business as usual as regards Palestine.Please forward this information.
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Tony Bogues Writes on Life in South Africa
Tony’s recent Intervention, "South Africa, On Becoming an Ordinary Country," is posted in the Interventions folder. (Link) Please add your thoughts and responses to the comments below. PAB
