Global Solidarity Activism: Connecting Local and Global Histories
A workshop hosted by Malmö University at Folk, Mat & Möten
11-12 June 2025
Olof Palmes plats 1, Malmö
Day 1: 11 June 2025
9:00 Arrival: coffee, tea and morning fika
9:30-12:00 Workshop session 1: Friendship & solidarity
- Rebeca Ávila: Solidarity Without Borders? Trajectories and Networks at the Portuguese-Cuban Friendship Association, 1974-1977
- Michelle Chipo Mudada: Friendship and Familiarity in Zimbabwean Anti-Apartheid Activism
- Yulia Gradskova: Making Global Connectivity from Tashkent: Women’s Section of the Uzbek Friendship Society and Decolonization
- Manase Kudzai Chiweshe: Centering the Zimbabwe’s Women’s Movement within the Global Networks of Anti-Colonial Activism
- Lucas Duarte: The Role of Solidarity in the Globalization of Activism During the Long 1960s: The Case of the Campaign for Hugo Blanco’s Life in Argentina
- Emma Lundin: The Role of Friendship in Swedish Solidarity Towards Southern Africa and South America
12:00-13:00 Lunch at Folk, Mat & Möten
13:00-14:30 Workshop session 2: Contingencies, challenges and continuities
- Molly Avery: The Demise of the Chile Solidarity Campaign: Democratisation, Thatcherism and the End of the Cold War, 1988-1991
- Yasmina Martin: Contingent Solidarities: Relations Between Tanzanians and ANC South Africans in a Time of Scarcity 1976-1985
- Ruth Craggs: Diplomatic Training as Solidarity? Exploring Programmes for Southern African Liberation movements 1980-1995
- Guadalupe A Seia: Transnational Student Activism: Latin America’s Solidarity towards Palestine during the Cold War
- Amanda Joyce Hall: Theorizing Black World Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
- Jodi Burkett: Can I be in Solidarity with Home? International Students Navigating Global Activism and Solidarity
- Ruben Janze & Dunia Daghlas: Decentering the Student Intifada: A Comparative Case Study of Student Protests in Belgium in 1968 and 2024
14:30-15:00 Coffee, tea and afternoon fika
17:00-19:00 Dinner at Folk, Mat & Möten
19:00-19:30 Excursion – a walking tour of Malmö’s historical activist neighbourhoods on the return to The More Hotel.
Day 2: 12 June 2025
9:00 Arrival: coffee, tea and morning fika
9:30-12:00 Workshop session 3: Peace and violence & Cultural connections
- Hannah Kaarina Yoken: Global Solidarity Activism Between East and West: The Finnish Peace Committee, 1979–1987
- Laura Evans: War, Mass Action and the Politics of Peace in the South African Transition
- Rachel Sandwell: “No Peace Without Struggle”: Peace Activists and the Question of Violence in Solidarity Movements
- Ragnar Øvergaard Aas: ‘There Will be Music’: Cultural Immersion in the Solidarity Movement for Chile
- Wichuta Teeratanabode: Transnational Solidarities and Publishing Houses: Connecting Books, Democracy, and Authoritarian Resistance
- Linda Austin: “Sí, se puede!” The United Farm Workers Movement, Grassroots Media and the Building of International Solidarity around Labor Rights and Social justice
- Jade Burnett: Emotion in the International Solidarity Activism of Women in the Communist Party of Great Britain
12:00-13:00 Lunch at Folk, Mat & Möten
13:00-14:30 Workshop session 4: Biographies and the self
- Fraser Raeburn: To and From Nicaragua and Spain: Intergenerational Solidarity and Autobiographical Activism
- Matt Graham: “We Were all Part of the Anti-Apartheid Cause, But Our Reasons for Joining Were Totally Different”: An Oral History of Individual Experiences in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Annmarie van der Voort: Politician by Choice, Soldier by Accident: Negotiating the ‘Self’, Space and Solidarity at the Intersection of Arab and African Politics in Cairo, 1960-1965
- Fátima Contreras: Egyptian Feminist Céza Nabarawi and Her Role in the First Afro-Asian Women Conference (Cairo, 1961): Feminism, Anti-Colonialism, and Peace Activism
- Kyle Harvey: Australians in Revolutionary Cuba: Explorations in Intersectional Solidarity
- Kate Law: Shirley Bassey and the Cultural Boycott Against Apartheid
14:30-15:00 Coffee, tea and afternoon fika
15:00-17:00: Roundtable: a discussion on post-workshop strategies and connections