IN/JUSTICE

Sample of Affiliated Courses 

CSI-0104-3: Changemaking in Urgent Times: In/Justice with Jina Fast and javiera Benavente

CSI-0198-1: Gaming the System: Race, Queerness, and the Politics of Play with Professor Loza

LCSEM-0105-1: The Queer-Coded Canon: Reading 20th Century American Literature Against the Grain with Caoimhe Harlock

CSI-0111-1: Intro to Political Economy with Omar Dahi

LCSEM-0103-1: Science of Stress with CJ Gill

For more courses and information about them, check out The Hub 

"Interdependence and Decentralization: Who We Are and How We Share" in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

"We Are the Leaders We’ve Been Looking For," chapter 6 in The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige

"Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal" by Meredith McCoy

Engaging Indigenous Knowledge for Land Care with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Tuesday, February 13th, 5:30 pm, FPH Main Lecture Hall

Robin Kimmerer, author of the 2023-2024 Common Read, will talk about critical themes contained in Braiding Sweetgrass & share her vision of what land justice might look like. Dr. Kimmerer will explore Indigenous perspectives on land conservation, from bicultural restoration to Land Back. This discussion invites listeners to consider how engaging Traditional Ecological Knowledge contributes to justice for land & people.

Amy Jordan, ajordan@hampshire.edu 

Book Club: Healing Justice Lineages, Dreaming at the crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

2/16, 3/13, 4/17, 5/13 / 12:00 - 1:00 pm / Location TBD

The book is co-written by a Hampshire alum and is grounded in racial healing. Student circle keepers, Samara Wilson began engaging with this book over the winter break and is the one who suggested it for this community. She’ll also be co-leading the discussions.

Kayla Schlenz, kassa@hampshire.edu

Global South Perspectives on Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Liberation

March 12th, 12-2 pm, FPH 107

This event aims to host activists and organizers from the Liyang Network- an international advocacy group that works on behalf of Indigenous Lumad communities in the Southern Philippines. Through a series of class visits and participatory public workshops, Liyang members will connect with students, faculty, and community members to ignite conversations about the role of international solidarity in advancing Indigenous liberation and combating climate change. Recent graduates themselves, Liyang members will also discuss strategies for how students can get involved in transnational Indigenous liberation movements. This event is open to the whole Hampshire College community and we welcome continued opportunities to connect and share with one another, both at Hampshire and in the Pioneer Valley.

Noah Romero, nerCSI@hampshire.edu 

US Foreign Policy and the 2024 Elections

Friday, March 29 / 5:30 pm / FPH Main Lecture Hall

From the War on Terror to the militarization of the Pacific, and from imperial competition with China to US support for Israeli atrocities in Palestine, the US quest for primacy has devastating consequences globally, and a corrosive impact domestically. Join us for a free flowing conversation about the implications of endless wars and militarism, rethinking US foreign policy and the implications for the upcoming 2024 elections. Spencer Ackerman, the foreign policy columnist for The Nation magazine; Amel Ahmad is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Van Jackson is a senior lecturer in international relations at Victoria University of Wellington, host of The Un-Diplomatic Podcast; Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and director of the Security in Context research network. 

This event is sponsored by the Hampshire College Learning Collaboratives and Security in Context, a research initiative on peace, conflict, and international affairs. 

For more information contact Omar Dahi, odahi@hampshire.edu 

December 3, 2024 / 5:30 - 7:30 PM / FPH East Lecture Hall

Join us for a discussion with Professor Michael Klare and Omar Dahi on the foreign policy implications of the US elections. The event will kick off with a special screening of a 10-minute tutorial video that explores the scale, influence, and objectives of the U.S. National Security State, often referred to as the U.S. War Machine. What is the U.S. National Security State’s size and reach? What are its main components? What are the overarching principles it seeks to achieve?

The video, produced by the Security in Context research network, was written and narrated by Professor Michael Klare and animated by Hampshire alumni Owen Neuburger.

Following the screening, Professor Klare and Dahi will talk briefly about the making of the video and then move to an open discussion and Q&A of what the US and the world can expect from Trump's foreign policy in the coming years.

Michael Klare is Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association at Hampshire College. With a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute, Klare has written extensively on U.S. military policy, international peace, security affairs, and resource politics. Author of fifteen books, including Resource Wars (2001) and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (2019), Klare’s work has appeared in Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and Scientific American, among many others.

Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. Dahi also serves as associate editor of Review of Social Economy, a co-editor at the e-zine Jadaliyya, and is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). He has been a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program.

These students received seed funding from the Learning Collaboratives during the Fall 2023—Spring 2024 school year. Division noted was for that year. 

Reproductive Access and Direct Service Collective

Holland Silva | Div II

Holland is taking on the necessary work of providing emergency contraception, pregnancy tests, fentanyl test strips, and Narcan to the Hampshire community. With the help of LC funds and Hampshire Grants, they are able to provide these necessary items in mutual aid and at no cost to the community.

Bringing daily life in Palestine to my daily life 

Haven Vincent-Warner | Div I

With this project, Haven is creating ten images (using printmaking, painting, and drawing), surrounding different (unique and specific) celebrations of Palestinian culture and heritage. Haven will be scanning these prints and wheatpasting them around Amherst, Northampton, and other places in Western MA. The project celebrates the richly beautiful culture and history of Palestine. This is a protest-art expression, focused on bringing light to the robust and beautiful lives, traditions, and culture of Palestine and the Palestinian peoples. As major forces of the world aim to erase Palestinian culture, Haven hopes to preserve and celebrate it publicly in the places they hold dear. 

Challenging the Narrative with Global South Perspectives 

Lucero Diaz Valiente | Div II

This project aims to uplift Global South voices, stories, and ways of being. As a part of Lucero’s fieldwork research study, the work aims to understand what solidarity means among Black and indigenous communities in the context of Johannesburg, South Africa and Capiatá, Paraguay to aim for collective liberation. Therefore, Lucero plan to conduct interviews in these communities. This project is part of Lucero’s Division III project.

Coordinators: 

Sarah E. Jenkins sejCS@hampshire.edu, Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture

Kate McConnel, kmOO@hampshire.edu, Associate Director of SPARC

Mia Sanghvi, miss22@hampshire.edu 

Ziehal (Z) Stephenson-Sweeney, zias22@hampshire.edu  

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