Internationale Blues: revolutionary pessimism and the politics of solidarity
Friday 17 May 2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Old Theatre, Old Building
In the context of Afro-pessimism, this lecture will imagine “the Internationale,” that great song of international solidarity and revolution transcending the nation, as a blues.
Speaker: Robin D G Kelley is Gary B Nash Endowed Chair in US History, University of California, Los Angeles.
Chair: Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights, Department of Sociology, LSE.
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