The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry will open part of its programming to the public – a series of lectures taught by this Summer's faculty cohort of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown University) , Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia), Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) and Robin Kelley (UCLA).

Glen Coulthard's lecture is entitled "'Palestinians and Native people are Comrades'": The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity." This talk explores a materialist ethic of solidarity between the Dene of the Northwest Territories (Canada) and the people of Palestine via a political economy of oil and extractivism in the 1970s. It looks at the origins of the 1973 Oil Crisis and effects, examining Indigenous resistance to extractivism spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the Canadian North.

Glen Coulthard teaches political theory in Department of Political Science and is the current Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He is the co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, an anti-colonial land-based political education project started in Denendeh in 2010. He is Yellowknives Dene.

Register for other ICSI lectures here:

June 7, 5 PM: Robin D.G. Kelley

June 8, 5 PM: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

June 10, 5 PM: Jack Halberstam

About the Institute:
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) is designed to provide advanced graduate students and junior faculty from around the world with the opportunity to spend one week at the New School’s campus in Greenwich Village working closely with some of the most distinguished thinkers shaping the course of contemporary social inquiry. Each of these scholars will teach a week-long seminar on a foundational thinker or topic of contemporary concern in a series of hands-on, intensive, and intimate sessions.