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Collective Study in Times of Emergency. Volume 2: 2025–2026

Digital edition 2026
Published by L’Internationale Online

Editors
Nick Aikens, Sheena Barrett, Sofia Dati, Bojana Piškur, Martin Pogačar and Ezgi Yurteri

Copy Editing 
Rebecca Bligh, Hannah Gregory, Bill Roberts, Nick Aikens

Graphic Design
Anja Groten & Juliette Lizotte 

General Coordinator
HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg University

Project Leader
L’Internationale

2026
ISBN 978-91-531-7584-1
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Contents

  1. Collective Study in Times of Emergency, volume 2. An introductory roundtable
    Nick Aikens, Sheena Barrett, Sofia Dati, Bojana Piškur, Martin Pogačar, Ezgi Yurteri
  2. I.
    ‘A wish for a year of collective liberation’: Bearing witness, testimony and speaking in times of genocide
  3. S is for Silence
    Maddalena Fragnito
  4. The Library and the Massacre: A Novelist's Testimony on the Destruction of Libraries in the Gaza Strip
    Yousri al-Ghoul
  5. Milad: The Birth of a Dream and Its Continuation
    Sanaa Salameh
  6. Mass Student Protests in Serbia: The possibility of different social relations
    Marijana Cvetković, Vida Knežević
  7. Dispatch: Institutional Critique in the Blurst of Times – On Refusal, Aesthetic Flattening, and the Politics of Looking Away
    İrem Günaydın
  8. Speaking in Times of Genocide: Censorship, ‘social cohesion’ and the case of Khaled Sabsabi
    Alissar Seyla
  9. II.
    ‘Trying to read the dead’: Language as resistance and the poetics of remembering
  10. Poetry Against Language Dioxide
    Rana Issa
  11. The Object of Value
    Slinko
  12. A Date Palm Against the Re-Deportation of Parables, or Europe’s Palestine Monument
    Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
  13. Until Liberation III
    Learning Palestine Group
  14. Five Rocks: A Collection of Tales
    Shayma Nader
  15. Reading the Dead of Gaza: Musha’ as mentality
    Philip Rizk
  16. III.
    ‘In fact there has been no peace’: The enduring promise and failures of internationalisms
  17. Today, again, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world
    Françoise Vergès
  18. Translated into Socialism: An experiment in internationalism
    Merve Elveren, Tevfik Rada, Sezgin Boynik
  19. ‘To Measure the Emotions of Others’: Collective Mourning and Solidarity Politics in the Iranian Diaspora
    Manijeh Moradian
  20. How the Atomic Bomb Changed the World: A discussion on the geopolitical, philosophical and societal transformations of the nuclear era
    Igor Bijuklič, Gal Krizmanič, Alja Zore
  21. ‘Near East, Far West’ and the proposition of Middle East Europe: A conversation between Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Nav Haq, Serge Klymko and Magda Lipska
    Charles Esche, Nav Haq, Nick Aikens, Serge Klymko, Magda Lipska
  22. Contributor Biographies
  23. Colophon

Collective Study in Times of Emergency Volume 2: 2025–2026 brings together 18 contributions published by L’Internationale Online from January 2025 to October 2026 under the research strand ‘Internationalisms’. Comprising essays, conversations, poetry, listening sessions and more it is an attempted response to the urgency of the present conjuncture and the need to rethink what it means to practice, articulate and claim internationalisms within the cultural sphere today. Palestine and the ongoing genocide frame the publication and sit at its core. Here, Palestine is articulated with other struggles, both contemporary and historical; an attempt to bring contexts into relation, even if such a move is always inadequate.

The publication is organised into three sections that traverses modes of bearing witness, reading and writing, as well as the complex, contradictory nature of internationalism itself. Following the first, eponymous publication the contributions gathered here, their diverse forms of realisation and dissemination, point to collective study as a practice of solidarity, what Bojana Piškur, one of the editors describes as ‘the joy of shared commitment and struggle’.