10/22/2025
Join us for an online event this Sunday, October 26, at 1pm EST: “Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics,” organized by Critical Theory Under Pressure, Emergencies of Authoritarianism, and the April Institute. We have invited a unique, international group of panelists to discuss the contradictions, dilemmas, and intimate aspects of authoritarianism: how it affects the way we behave, feel, and relate to each other; how it generates indignation, fear, paranoia, resignation, or trauma; how it changes what we choose to hold dear and what we come to find unbearable; and it how alters daily routines and ways of life, namely, where we move and how we work, love, and live.
Zeynep Gambetti, a political theorist and co-chair of the International Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory, will moderate the discussion of our four panelists: Rahul Bhatia, journalist and author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy (PublicAffairs, 2024); Volkan Çidam, political philosopher and member of Academics for Peace, Istanbul; Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, performance artist, cultural researcher, and associate of the Christopher Street Day organization in Bautzen (Eastern Saxony, Germany); and Joseph Howley, Professor of Classics at Columbia University and organizer with the Palestine Solidarity movement. Attendees can submit questions during the event.
You can register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qEeRV7InQwWyOAnGcSywfg #/registration or use the attached QR code.
Event info and registration link is also available on our website: https://aprilinstitute.org/events/
