On Settler Colonialism: From Latin America to Palestine
Speaker: Aviva Chomsky
Date: October 25, 2024
Time: 12:00PM
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center
In this talk Professor Aviva Chomsky responds to Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice (Norton, 2024) which critiques the application of a settler colonial analysis to the state of Israel, through an analysis of how Settler Colonialism is conceptualized in Latin America. She will respond by talking about settler colonialism from a Latin American perspective. The talk will be a brownbag lunch on Friday, Oct. 25 at noon.
Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice (2022); Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (2021); Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (2014; Mexican edition, 2014), A History of the Cuban Revolution (2011, 2nd ed. 2015), Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008), They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration (2007; U.S. Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 (1996). She has also co-edited several anthologies including Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston (2021) The People behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights/Bajo el manto del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón, Colombia (2007), The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2003, 2nd edition 2019) and Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (1998). She has been active in Palestine and Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades.
*Campus Life Experience Credit will be available
