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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
15 November 2026, 13:00

Che Guevara on a dishcloth

Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC) Amilcar Packer

A book launch and conversation with JAMAC: an insurgent art project in São Paulo who visually embed stories into drawn patterns used towards processes of community self-determination. They have done the set design for Episode 12.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
15 November 2026, 14:45

Decolonising Time

Ramón Grosfoguel

Join world-renowned Puerto Rican decolonial thinker and activist as he unpicks the Eurocentric lie of linear time, and shares anti-colonial temporalities that arise out of, and in light of the life ways, suffering, dignity, and creative drive of oppressed communities around the world.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
15 November 2026, 16:15

Time as an Object of Struggle in Palestinian Anticolonialism

Nasser Abourahme Peter Makhlouf

How do Palestinians rethink the cosmologies of time within which they organise their struggle—and the clock counting down on Israel’s endgame.

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

Curating Absolute Disorder

Françoise Vergès Nat Raha

How can we acknowledge the violent history of museum and gallery collections? Can we detach Western art from capitalist systems?

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
14 November 2026, 17:00

The Curved Time of Memory

Leda Maria Martins Pelumi Odubanjo

Centring performance within a host of concepts crystallised from Black worldmaking and religious frameworks, Leda Maria Martins is one of the most influential thinkers of Afro-Brazilian experience today.

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

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Nasser Abourahme Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Avery F. Gordon Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors

This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
21 August 2026

How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution

Chaoying Rao Madi Awadalla

An excavation of the 1805 Lock Hospital in Glasgow. Its official function was to support ‘unfortunate females with venereal disease’, but really what happened was that women and girls were marched in, experimented on, and often never released.

Hard Labour
21 August 2026

Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion

Scotland for Decrim National Ugly Mugs

A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs

Hard Labour
4 November 2025

Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World

Ståle Holgerson Glasgow Housing Struggles Archive

Join Ståle Holgerson to discuss his new book Against the Crisis, hosted by Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive