L’Internationale Online approaches research and publishing as a practice of collective study across diverse formats. We are pleased to announce free, upcoming programmes with partners in Amsterdam, Brussels, Gothenburg, Madrid and online that both builds on recently published material whilst also being the basis for new contributions—essays, reading lists, dispatches, mix tapes—in the future.
Study programme: Night Study
April 24 (and continuing throughout 2025), online
An associated initiative of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
Led by: Dr. Glenn Loughran. This online seminar series explores the politics of adult education and public pedagogy today. Reading Lewis and Hyland’s (2022) “The Antifascist Politics of Studioing” and Tyson Lewis’s (2020) Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education: From Riddles to Radio it explores subversive educational forms, their emancipatory traditions and the current need for collective study. Night Study prioritises social justice, democracy and freedom of speech in the attempt to construct education otherwise. Sessions take place Wednesday, 7pm-9pm monthly until September 21. To join please email glenn.loughran [at] TUDublin.ie.
Poetry readings: Culture for Peace: Art and Poetry in Solidarity with Palestine
April 25, Madrid
An initiative of Museo Reina Sofía, TEJA and Museo Situado, Madrid
With: Manar Idris, Nick Aikens, Sada Safadi. In partnership with Teja Network of Cultural Spaces in Times of Emergency and L’Internationale, this poetry reading features poems by Palestinian authors featured in Rana Issa’s contribution ‘We Have Ben Here Forever. Palestinian Poets Write Back’, part of the publication Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency. The open-air recital features Palestinian poets writing from the 1940s and the Nakba era to the 1970s and those writing in Gaza today.
DJ Set: “International”, Roberta Miss aka Nur/Se
April 28, Brussels / online
In collaboration with KIOSK Radio, Brussels
At KIOSK radio Roberta Miss aka Nur/Se mixes a live version of “International”, recently commissioned for L’Internatiomale Online as part of the Sonic Commons series. “International” opens with high tempo, foreboding techno, interspersed with diverse samples, often taken from the streets, creating a powerful, sonic manifestation of today’s social and cultural conjuncture.
Lecture: Nkule Mabaso: “Curating Photography and Other Discourse Gaps”
April 30, Gothenburg
In collaboration with MA Forum, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
The MA Forum introduces postgraduate students to research through artistic practice. It partners with L’Internationale Online, whereby practices featured are studied through a public lecture and closed sessions with students. Lectures have included Åsa Sonjasdotter, Rana Issa, Mohanad Yaqubi, Onkar Kular and Yazan Khalili. The final lecture of 2024-2025 is given by Nkule Mabaso, curator and director of Fotogallereit in Oslo. Mabaso will reflect on navigating the complexities of exhibiting photographic works in medium-specific institutions.
Palestine Solidarity Reading Group: Collective Study in Times of Emergency
April 30, Gothenburg
In collaboration with HDK-Valand Staff for Palestine, University of Gothenburg
Collective Study in Times of Emergency (2024) includes 19 contributions published since November 2023 as a response to drastic shifts in the public sphere as a result of the genocide in Palestine. The reading group meets monthly to read texts from the publication.
Study programme: Collective Study in Times of Emergency
May 8–9, Amsterdam
In collaboration with de Appel, Amsterdam
Keynote: Françoise Vergès / Participants: Noor Abed, Nick Aikens, The Black Archives, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Chad Cordeiro, Charles Esche, Layal Foutini, Rana Issa, Lara Khaldi, Learning Palestine, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Rasha Salti, Subversive Film, Elke Uitentuis. Within the context of ‘Every Act of Struggle’, de Appel’s research project and exhibition, including an assembly space conceived by Iswanto Hartono, L’Internationale Online convenes a two-day study programme of Collective Study in Times of Emergency. The programme aims to articulate strategies of Sumud (steadfastness) across current times of emergency with examples from the past, namely apartheid South Africa and institutional responses in the Netherlands.
