by efc8d-admin | Mar 30, 2026 | Migration and Borders, Politics and Culture
Today it’s a special honor to welcome Serhat Tutkal and Hevin Karakurt to Speaking Out of Place. These two scholars engage in a broad discussion of Kurdish history, culture, politics, literature and language, with particular attention to issues of statelessness,...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 26, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecological Justice, Educational Liberation, Palestine
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Fernando Racimo, a leading scientist-activist, about his new book, Science in Resistance. This book gives a riveting account of the founding and growth of the international group Scientist Rebellion, in which now...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 24, 2026 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Antifascism, Antiracism, Educational Liberation, Palestine
Today I am excited and honored to be talking with Dr. Shamell Bell and Sherena Razek, two activist scholars who join us to talk about their work on the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, which will be convening its Third Annual National Day of Action on April...
by efc8d-admin | Mar 16, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Antiracism, Politics and Culture, Race
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, I have the pleasure of talking with Say Burgin about her book, Organizing on Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit. Tracing the changing terrain of anti-racist organizing and activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Burgin’s...
by efc8d-admin | Feb 16, 2026 | Environment and Biosphere, Nature
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Helen Whybrow about her book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Besides being a detailed account of the day to day, season by season life on her farm, where she and her family raise sheep, build a broad...
