NEW JERSEY

This event is part of Israeli Apartheid Week.
Please join us for a lecture with J. Kehualani Kauanui on BDS and solidarity activism with Palestine with comments by Jasbir Puar and Sherry Wolf, highlighting the efforts on the Rutgers New Brunswick Campus

Lecturer:
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. There, she teaches on seller colonialism, indigenous politics, critical race studies, and anarchism. Kauanui’s first book is titled, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, published by Duke University Press. Her second book in-progress is titled, Thy Kingdom Come? The Paradox of Hawaiian Sovereignty, which is a critical study on gender and sexual politics. From 2007 through 2013, she served as the sole producer and host of a public affairs radio program, “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond,” which was produced in the studios of WESU, Middletown, CT. The show was widely syndicated across a dozen states on Pacifica radio affiliate stations. And since 2010, she has collaborated on two anarchist radio shows: “Horizontal Power Hour” and “Anarchy on Air.” Kauanui is one of six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and she is currently an elected member the national council of the American Studies Association. She also serves on the advisory board for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.