10th Annual Graduate Research Seminar
Key information
- Date
- Time
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9:30 am to 5:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
Recognising the urgency of the study of Palestine amidst the ongoing genocide – including the destruction of the Palestinian educational sector and a widespread campaign to suppress solidarity with Palestine – the Centre for Palestine Studies will convene its 10th Annual Graduate Research Seminar on Thursday 6 June 2024 at SOAS University of London.
The event will provide a critical platform for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars working on Palestine to present their projects, receive feedback, and engage others within a supportive environment. Our four panels will facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue across Palestine Studies, and are organised under the following titles: The Age of Genocide, International Histories of Solidarity and Dispossession, Palestinian Society Under Occupation, and Culture and Resistance.
We look forward to a day of rich and collegial discussion and exchange.
Programme
| Time | Title |
|---|---|
| 9:30am - 9:45am | Introduction |
| 9:45am - 11:15am | Panel 1: The Age of Genocide Discussant: Dina Matar Chair: Reem Abou-El-Fadl |
| Manal Shqair (Queen Margaret University), ‘The Dialectic of Palestinian Semi-Nomadic Women’s Anti-Colonial ‘Occupations’ | |
| Hurriyah Ziada (SOAS), ‘The Soundtrack of Genocide’ | |
| Abdallah Al Anjari (University of Exeter), ‘The Judaization of East Jerusalem Following the Events of 7th October’ | |
| Felicia Campos (University of Edinburgh), ‘Palestinian Futurities: Rap, Hip Hop and Future-Making of Palestine’ | |
| 11:15am – 11:30am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am – 1:00pm | Panel 2: International Histories of Solidarity and Dispossession Discussant: Gilbert Achcar Chair: Nate George |
| Jenan Abu Shtaya (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), ‘Spatial-Temporal Dispossession in Palestine: The Case of Beisan Lands (1918-1934)’ | |
| Fadi Kafeety (University of Houston), ‘Solidarity in Command: Yemen, Palestine and the Politics of Revolutionary Internationalism’ | |
| Muntaha Abed (Birzeit University), ‘Gendering Uprisings; South Korean and Palestinian Student Mobilization’ | |
| Alia Al Sabi (New York University), ‘Captive Archives: Visitations in Prison Notebooks & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement pre-Oslo (1975-1995)’ | |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Panel 3: Palestinian Society Under Occupation Discussant: Salwa Ismail Chair: Hengameh Ziai |
| Hala Shoman (Newcastle University), ‘Palestinian Women at the Intersection of Colonial and Patriarchal Violence: Cultural Renegotiations of Religion and Tradition in Gaza’ | |
| Nahide Basri (University College London), ‘Regulating Surveillance Technologies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ | |
| Fairouz Salem (Birzeit University), ‘Producing and Practicing Vulnerability/Resilience in Area C at the West Bank/Palestine | |
| Naema Aldaqsha (University of Exeter), ‘Intellectuals in the Diplomatic Corps of the Palestinian Authority & (Mis)Representation of the Subaltern’ | |
| 3:30pm – 3:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:45pm – 5:15pm | Panel 4: Culture and Resistance Discussant: Wen-chin Ouyang Chair: Sarah El Kazaz |
| Daniel Teehan (SOAS), ‘Living the Revolution Madly: Abolition, Decolonization, and Wisam Rafeedie’s The Trinity of Fundamentals’ | |
| Ibrahim Badshah (University of Houston), ‘Resistance Translation: On Translating Palestinian Literature into Malayalam | |
| Claire Begbie (Concordia University), ‘Microcosms of Palestinian Resistance: Kafr Qassem and Land Day in 1970s Arab Cinema | |
| Hamza Albakri (University of Exeter), ‘Stateless Masculinities in the Occupied West Bank: Violence, Resilience, and Resistance’ | |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
