Artist credit: Lena Merhej. Banner for Sonic Solidarity: Breaking Languages and Chanting for Freedom by Michelle Hartman

Sonic Solidarity: Breaking Languages and Chanting for Freedom by Michelle Hartman

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Academic

Sat, Oct 17, 2026

6 PM – 8 PM (GMT+3)

Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

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In times of crisis, protest chants in many languages ring out through the streets. Anyone can chant in a demonstration, and everyone hears these chants, but they are rarely studied. In this lecture, Michelle Hartman, professor of Arabic and Francophone literature, McGill University and cotranslator of A Long Walk from Gaza, will look at how chanting and poetry use “breaking language” with a focus on how solidarity is expressed through sound—how poetry, writing and chanting can mobilize the power of using multiple languages in unexpected ways to call for freedom.

 

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