Where: Church of the Village 201 W. 13th St. New York NY 10011
When: April 28th
Time: 07:00 pm
End Time: 09:00 pm
Price Range: Free
Please join NYC DSA Academy for Socialist Education as they host historians Greg Grandin and Nikhil Pal Singh for an evening's discussion on:
Tuesday, April 28, 7pm
Church of the Village, 201 W. 13th St., NYC
RSVP requested
Plundering
the planet has re-emerged as the face of U.S. foreign policy. Echoing
earlier eras of American imperialism and militarism, the Trump
administration seizes oil, rare earth minerals, land and power, while
overthrowing governments and destroying communities that may stand in
the way.
An administration that promised to stay out of
“forever wars” now stands perpetually on the verge of starting one or
more. Meanwhile, violence abroad is matched by state terror at home. All
of this has roots in a history of American empire as old as the nation
itself.
Historians Greg Grandin and Nikhil Pal Singh
will discuss the resurgence of what was once called "gunboat
diplomacy," how it builds on and differs from earlier forms of imperial
domination, and how we might fight back.
Please RSVP.
Bios:
Greg Grandin, who received his doctorate at Yale University, previously
taught at New York University for 19 years. He is the author of
seven books, including The Blood of Guatemala, The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award, The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history, Kissinger’s Shadow, and The End of the Myth, which
won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a finalist in
the history category. Grandin is a member of the American Academy of
Arts & Sciences and the Society of American Historians. He is co-editor of A Century of Revolution and The Guatemala Reader. Grandin has published widely, in The Nation, where he is a member of the editorial board, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, NACLA’s Report on the Americas, and the New York Times, among other venues. He is a regular guest on Democracy Now! His most recent book is
America, América: A New History of the New World.
Nikhil Pal Singh received his PhD from Yale University and is currently professor and
chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. He is the author of numerous books, including Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for
Democracy (Harvard U. Press, 2004), recognized
as the best book on U.S. civil rights history by the Organization of
American Historians, and Race and
America’s Long War (UC Press, 2017), an examination of
the relationship between race, war, and policing in U.S. domestic life
and overseas conflict. In
2014 Singh helped to create and develop the NYU Prison Education Program
(PEP), serving as its founding faculty director until 2023. Singh has been interviewed and published in Jacobin’s The Dig and Behind the News podcasts, in The Nation, The Intercept, Dissent, the Verso blog, The New Republic, Salvage, The New Statesmen, Equator, and Boston Review.
He currently serves as a series editor for the American Crossroads book
series at the University of California Press and is a non-resident
fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, based in
Washington, DC. He is currently writing his next book, provisionally entitled: Homeland Empire: How the US Became a Revisionist Power.
About the NYC DSA Academy for Socialist Education:
Education,
broadly defined, is and always has been a vital function of
revolutionary socialist movements. The NYC DSA Academy aims to enhance
the ongoing political education efforts of the New York chapter of DSA.
Designed to connect the history and theory of socialist struggles with
the work of today’s activists, the Academy aims to offer a rigorous but
accessible curriculum for working adults to develop their understanding
and strategy. Find our course roster here.