Colonial Histories: Beyond the Nation-State: Colonization and Resistance in the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Marina Sitrin is an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at Binghamton University, where she is currently Chair. Dr. Sitrin holds a PhD in Global Sociology and JD in International Women’s Human Rights. She is the author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina and the forthcoming, We Make Our Own Justice: Beyond Police and Prisons, as well as the co-author of They Can’t Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID 19 Crisis, and the forthcoming Deep Commons: Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity and Care Beyond Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racism, and the State. She is active in local and international organizing in support of AANES/Rojava and is a part of the facilitation team of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives.

Ozlem Goner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written academic and popular journal articles on themes of state violence, intersectional feminist movements, anti-colonial self-determination, and internationalist solidarity. Her book entitled, Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim, was published by Routledge in June 2017.

Arthur Pye is a writer, organizer, and popular educator based in the Pacific Northwest. He previously spent a year living in North-East Syria studying the Rojava revolution, and is a steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava. Arthur is also a co-director of the Municipalism Learning Series and a board member of the Institute for Social Ecology. His writings can be found in Strange Matters Magazine.