How do we think, teach, live, and most importantly, hope, through the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the U.S.? This public program brings together refugee and immigrant scholars to ask how we think through concepts such as memory, resistance, refusal, desire, and pain when our established systems of knowing and living are collapsing. All together the program considers hope as a communicative practice that shapes our response to oppression and violence. By centering immigrant and refugee epistemologies, the program asks how the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the United States can be understood from perspectives of those who have survived the worst. The program suggests that the epistemology of hopeless hope is necessary if we are to effectively address the crisis of violence and oppression.
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