Harsha Walia — "Abolish Border Imperialism"

**All events in the Virtual Scholarly Series will be held as Zoom webinars with CART (live captions). For any other access requests, please contact Zaynab Hilal at zhilal2@uic.edu.**

Surviving the Long Wars explores the multiple overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as the alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse communities impacted by war. The project begins with a virtual scholarly series hosted by the University of Illinois Chicago at the nexus of critical ethnic studies, native/Indigenous studies, and Middle Eastern Studies on the histories and futures of native rebellion alongside contemporary us militarism and warfare. The seminar series is part of a year-long UIC graduate class and NEH “Dialogues on the Experience of War” discussion program. The project culminates in the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit, in Spring 2023, at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Newberry Library.

Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Haymarket Books) and Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press). She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist movements for two decades.

Surviving the Long Wars is organized by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Joseph Lefthand, Amber Zora, and Meranda Roberts with support from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Institute for the Humanities Innovation Grant, UIC Award for Creative Activity, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Newberry Library, Demil Art Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experiences of War Grant. Special thanks to the UIC Disability Cultural Center, the Native American Support Program, the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, Zaynab Hilal, and Rachel Dukes.

For more information on Harsha Walia recent public writings and discussions, please check out this curated "playlist."

1. Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
2. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
3. Not a Border Crisis: Harsha Walia on Why It’s Time for a New Political Project
4. Harsha Walia in conversation with Robin D.G Kelly | Abolitionist Internationalism: Borders, Migration, and Racial Capitalism
5. ‘A system of global apartheid’: author Harsha Walia on why the border crisis is a myth
6. Millennials are Killing Capitalism episode: Harsha Walia's Border & Rule on Racial Capitalism, Border Imperialism and Global Migration
7. There Is No “Migrant Crisis”