Event Date
Grounded Internationalism at the Ends of US Empire
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Lecture 4:00-6:00pm Hart Hall 3201
Pre-event lunch* 12:00-1:00pm Hart Hall 3201
We are in a moment shaped by the violent contradictions of waning U.S. power: a security state still executing a distributed War on Terror and War on Drugs; renewed domestic echoes of McCarthy-era repression, state counterinsurgency, and expansive racialized detention; and mounting geopolitical signs of U.S. hegemony's decline. The same moment has also produced striking political solidarity through civic and internationalist organizing across the U.S. This panel of esteemed scholars of race, law, and imperialism will explore the prospects and tensions of grounded internationalism today, at the ends of U.S. empire.
Featuring:
Dr. Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"The War on Terror and Fascism"
Dr. Nadine Naber, University of Illinois, Chicago
"After Imperial Severance: Radical Mothering from Chicago to Palestine"
Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Zionism Through (Other) Diasporic Eyes: On Asian Americans and the Politics of Solidarity"
Moderated by:
Dr. Najwa Mayer, University of California, Davis