Please join us on March 16th, 4pm for the culminating event of the Engage Conference, the Eqbal Ahmad Symposium.  The symposium honors Eqbal Ahmad, who taught at Hampshire during the last two decades of his life. A writer, teacher, and activist, his insights and trenchant critiques drew on the history of the Partition of India and Pakistan; his participation in the struggle in Kashmir, in the Algerian war of national liberation, the U.S. civil rights and anti-war movements, and the Israel/Palestine conflict.  This year’s lecture, Race, Empire and State Sanctioned Violence, features three dynamic speakers including author of Making All Black Lives Matter, Barbara Ransby, Palestinian scholar activist, writer Yamila Hussein Shannan, and Afro-Columbian environmental justice activist, Francia Marquez.  These speakers will engage the interconnections between police brutality and multiple forms of militarization and state sanctioned violence, paying attention to the local and transnational character of movements that confront the racist legacies of colonialism and imperialism. At this defining moment, our panelists will provide us with tools for understanding international solidarity struggles that demand public resources be shifted away from policing, and from the Pentagon, both of which perpetuate dehumanizing systems of white supremacy and state violence.