Building on our State of Female Revolution series, One Billion Rising and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS) at Columbia Law School are bringing together this formidable group of activists for a public panel discussion on resisting the violence of police, states and empire. 

Please join the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability for their annual conference, The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past. 

The Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) at Columbia University in collobration with the Center for Arab Studies at the Unviersity of Chile are proud to present the second annual Palestinian Film Festival in Santiago, Chile at Cineteca Nacional (Centro Cultural La Moneda). 

Based on a meticulous examination of archival material documenting the process of Zionist land accumulation and the expulsions of Palestinians from 1936 to mid-1950s, I argue that the 1948 Nakba was neither the beginning nor the end of a process of settler-colonial expropriation. 

Photographer Tanya Habjouqa will present work from her recent book "Occupied Pleasures" which looks at the pursuit of happiness in the midst of occupation and blockade in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

"Lady Liberty" by Columbia professor Nathalie Handal is currently being featured in Poetry in Motion® in New York City.

The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. 

In their book The Empire of Trauma, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman ask, "[W]hen we consider the soldier suffering from nightmares and flashbacks as psychologically wounded rather than as a malingerer or a hero, what does this view of war and those who participate in it tell us," (2009: 8)? Taking inspiration from their question, I consider the political and ethical consequences of shifting understandings of the trauma of soldiers for how an American public might come to know and understand U.S. wars-past and present.