Reimagining Antifascist Futures: A Conversation with Dr. Alyosha Goldstein and Dr. Simón Trujillo

Please join us for a virtual conversation on rethinking fascisms and reimagining antifascist movements with professors Dr. Alyosha Goldstein and Dr. Simón Trujillo. Co-editors of the 2022 book For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis (Common Notions Press), Goldstein and Trujillo will discuss what they see as new formations of authoritarian politics in 2025 and possible horizons of resistance against racial capitalist and imperial violence. This event is sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and brought to you by Abolition Worlds and Dark Opacities Lab.

Alyosha Goldstein is professor American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Duke University Press, 2012), editor of Formations of United States Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2014), and coeditor of For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis (Common Notion, 2022) and The Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, volume 4, 1914 – 2001 (in preparation for Cambridge University Press). His book This Colonial Present: Dispossession, Irreparation, and the Gound Not Given is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Simón Ventura Trujillo is an Associate Professor of Latinx Studies in the English Department at New York University. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches and researches on Chicanx and Latinx literature; Borderland methodologies; US ethnic studies; decolonial social movements; race, racism, and racialization; and comparative indigeneities. With Alyosha Goldstein, he is the co-editor of For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis (Common Notions Press, 2022). He is the author of Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity  (U Arizona Press, 2020).

Please email allan.lumba@concordia.ca for zoom link.