On Democracy at Risk: A Conversation with H.L.T. Quan and Alan Gómez

Event description

  • Academic events
  • Diversity and inclusion

1:30-2:30 p.m. AZ time

How can we re-imagine community and solidarity in an age of increasingly fragmented democracy? Join Associate Professors H.L.T. Quan and Alan Gomez from the School of Social Transformation to discuss concepts of justice, freedom, and new approaches to creating resistance, drawing on themes from Quan's new book, "Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living".

 

About the Speakers

H. L. T. Quan is a political theorist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her research & teaching focus on radical thought and praxis, including feminist consciousness, utopian thought, speculative living, data justice, movements for justice, and the Black Radical Tradition.

Alan Eladio Gómez is a historian, Southwest Borderlands Scholar and associate professor of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the School of Transborder Studies and the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts.

 

Event contact

Karina Fitzgerald
602-543-1225
karina.fitzgerald@asu.edu
Date

Friday, April 5, 2024

1:30-2:30 PM AZ time
Time

2:30 pm3:30 pm (MST)

Location

Virginia G. Piper Center (Hybrid)

Cost

Free