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Academic Repression in Israel
Jun
6
2:00 PM14:00
History of the Present

Academic Repression in Israel

 

As Israel’s criminal war in Gaza continues, with death, destruction, and starvation reaching disastrous dimensions, Palestinian and critical Jewish faculty and students in Israeli academia are facing unprecedented repression - including suspensions, dismissals and even arrest. Join colleagues from the grassroots organization Academia for Equality for a conversation on the situation in Israeli universities and colleges and the state of the struggle for academic freedom.

Speakers
Anat Matar Philosopher and author, The Poverty of Ethics
Sawsan Zaher Human rights lawyer and legal adviser, Emergency Coalition in Arab Society
Avi-ram Tzoreff Historian, Academia for Equality's Solidarity Team
Khaled Furani Anthropologist and co-editor, Inside the Leviathan: Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Chair
Nadia Abu El-Haj Anthropologist and co-director, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Organized by Academia for Equality. and o-Sponsored BRISMES; Committee on Academic Freedom, MESA; Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University.

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Rashid Khalidi Retirement Conference
May
2
to May 3
History of the Present

Rashid Khalidi Retirement Conference

Join us in honoring Professor Rashid Khalidi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University.

Rashid Khalidi has been the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University since 2003. He was the founding co-director of Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies. He served as chair of Columbia’s Department of History, and was the winner of the Lenfest Teaching Award in 2007 and Lionel Trilling Book Award in 2014. He has written or co-edited over ten books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (2020), and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (rev. ed. 2010), which received the Albert Hourani Book Award in 1997.

RASHID KHALIDI RETIREMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday May 2  |  DAY 1
James Memorial Chapel, Union Theological Seminary 90 Claremont Ave, New York, NY 10027

4:30–4:50 pm
Welcome Remarks: Seth Anziska
Nadia Abu El-Haj

5:00–6:15 pm 
Public Panel: Gaza
Panelists:  Tareq Baconi, Jehad Abusalim, Noura Erakat
Moderator:  Rosie Bsheer

6:30–7:30 pm
In Conversation: Rashid Khalidi and Razia Iqbal
Panel Q&A

Friday May  3 |  DAY 2
James Memorial Chapel, Union Theological Seminary 90 Claremont Ave, New York, NY 10027

9:00–9:25 am
Welcome Remarks: Sarah Gualtieri (Chicago ’00)

9:30–10:45 am
Empire and Colonialism
Chair: Ben Fortna (Chicago ‘97)
Zeinab Azarbadegan (Columbia ‘21), Sahar Bostock (Columbia), Susannah Ferguson (Columbia ‘19), Matthew Ghazarian (Columbia ‘21), Angela Giordani (Columbia ‘21), Renee Worringer (Chicago ‘01)

11:00 am–12:15 pm
Nationalism
Chair: Michael Provence (Chicago ‘01)
Cam Amin (U Chicago, ‘96), Nader Atassi (Columbia ‘23), Joshua Donovan (Columbia ‘22), Rebecca Glade (Columbia ‘23), Nada Khalifa (Columbia ‘16), Noor-Aiman Iftikhar Khan (Chicago ‘06), Linda Sayed (Columbia ‘13)

12:30–1:45pm
Lunch

2:00–3:15 pm
Archives, Environments, and Innovative Approaches
Chair: Sarah Gualtieri (Chicago ‘00)
John Chen (Columbia ‘18), Jonathan Gribetz (Columbia ‘10), Tsolin Nalbantian (Columbia ‘11), Dale Stahl (Columbia ‘14), Andrea Stanton (Columbia ‘07), Karine Walther (Columbia ’07), Adrien Zakar (Columbia ‘18)

3:30–4:45 pm
Rethinking Global History from Palestine
Chair: Nancy Ko (Columbia)
Yasemin Akçagüner (Columbia), Seth Anziska (Columbia ‘15), Elizabeth Bishop (Chicago ‘97),
Abigail Jacobson (Chicago ‘06), Jamil Sbitan (Columbia)           

5:00–6:00 pm
Closing Panel
Rashid Khalidi: “Settler Colonialism in Ireland and Palestine”
Moderator: Seth Anziska (Columbia ’15)

Organized by the Center for Palestine Studies and the Department of History. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Institute, Columbia Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for Humanities, and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies. 

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