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12 November 2026, 20:50

Countertechnologies of life making in Palestine, for Palestine

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi

Palestinian Feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian sits down with psychoanalyst and author Lara Sheehi to discuss some of Nadera’s other vital concepts including the ideas of ‘overkilling’ and ‘unchilding’, which are fundamental to understanding Palestinian experience today.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 10:30

Teat(r)o Oficina – power of Presence in the presence of Power

Fernanda Taddei

Fernanda will share some of the practice and history of Teat(r)o Oficina, one of the most important counter-colonial, radical theatre companies in the world, which she works as an actress, co-director, project conceiver and free passionate researcher since 2015.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 13:00

Writing Workshop: A Year on the Abyss of Genocide

Mahmoud Alshaer

For this workshop,  Writer and poet Mahmoud Alshaer invites people to share in his compositional method: a daily practice in which he asks what it means to write under different temporal regimes—the present, during the genocide, and during the occupation.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 13:00

Routes of Black Theatre in Brazil

Leda Maria Martins Adura Onashile

A rare conversation with Leda, who is the leading philosopher of Black Theatre in Brazil, exploring the specificities of its aesthetic, theoretical, and poetic intersections, and connection with African cultures, rituals, and philosophies.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 15:00

Pedagogy and Liberation in Times of Proscription

Joel White layla-roxanne hill Darcy Leigh Masa Nazzal Hajar Ibrahim David Kenvyn Rosie Thompson Paula Larkin

Join local community organisers and activists in Glasgow to think about how we build and share knowledge of state power–including proscription, police violence, elite capture, and legislative attack–while avoiding surveillance.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 17:15

Freely Frayed: A Performance

Don Mee Choi

A performance by one of the most influential anti-colonial poets and translators internationally: a refusal to be legible that demands to be read, a translation of the unspeakable that must be heard.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
13 November 2026, 19:00

Undefeated Dreams of Communism in the Indian Ocean

Françoise Vergès Lara Sheehi

An evening with one of the great decolonial feminist thinkers, sharing rarely seen films commissioned by her father, as leader of the Communist Party of Réunion, that celebrate the island’s insurgent anti-colonial resistance.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
14 November 2026, 10:30

Timeback

Amilcar Packer

Conversation and launch of a publication and interview with Brazilian Indigenous activist and thinker Jerá Guarani, whose community at Kalipety near São Paulo extends the practice of ‘land back’ to also reclaim anti-colonial time.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
14 November 2026, 13:00

It wasn’t history but memory

Harry Josephine Giles Ailean Dòmhnallach Babs Nicgriogair Meg Bateman

A conversation weaving together music, poetry and discussion which asks what decolonisation means in the Gàidhealtachd and how we can hold the complexity of Scotland’s role in empire?

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
14 November 2026, 15:00

Against Innocence

Houria Bouteldja Ramón Grosfoguel Françoise Vergès

How has the idea of innocence been weaponised to conceal the crimes of colonisation? Three leading anti-colonial thinkers will explore its history and examine how it continues to facilitate colonial systems today.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas