Bringing together academics, artists, activists, and other community members to develop concrete strategies, tools, and proposals to create a counter-imaginary to authoritarianism.
About the Project
Through collaborative workshops, conferences, performances, publications, and a dynamic, open-ended digital platform, this project brings together academics, artists, activists, and community members to develop strategies, tools, and proposals that counter authoritarianism.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the initiative is a joint project of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP), and the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley, and the Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab (CRACS Co-Lab) at New York University.
Led by renowned scholars Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley), Debarati Sanyal (UC Berkeley), and Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University), the project addresses growing censorship and surveillance targeting academic and artistic freedoms in fields such as gender, race, ethnic studies, migration, diversity, and sexuality.
Read the full press release here and learn more about the exploratory grant, Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism, which preceded this project.
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Principal Investigators and Partners
- Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School
- Shannon Jackson, Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor
- Debarati Sanyal, Zaffaroni Family Chair
- Denise Ferreira da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities, New York University
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