Apr
18
4:00 PM16:00
Apr
11
4:30 PM16:30
Theorizing the Palestinian surplus population at the intersection of Zionist settler colonialism and Palestinian neoliberalism
Informed by a comparative political economy framework, his book project situates the Palestinian economy as determined by two intersecting forces - settler colonialism and neoliberalism. While scholarly analyses of Israeli domination and Palestinian self-rule have increasingly employed both categories and produced valuable insights, an analytical framework constructed by their dialectical relations and theoretical communalities has yet to materialize. The project aims to fill this gap and produce a comparative and interdisciplinary political economy of neoliberal self-rule under settler colonialism. Understood as strategies of class/race based forms of social engineering and population management, the research seeks to identify structural nodes of their intersection and show how the social and economic reproduction of Palestinian society is determined by settler colonialism and neoliberal logics of capitalism, governance and aid. It uses the concept of a 'surplus population' to theorize how both forces jointly contain, control and govern Palestinians within the realm of the economy. In broader terms, the book project challenges the sui generis approach with which Palestine (and Israel) continues to be analyzed and opens up possibilities of comparative research across indigenous communities subject to neoliberal forms of self-rule under conditions of settler colonial expansion.
Apr
5
6:00 PM18:00
Family Endowments and the Collapse of the Public Sector
This talk will examine the changing status of endowed properties (family and public) on the eve of Israeli occupation of the old city of Jerusalem and its subsequent annexation in 1968...
Apr
4
6:00 PM18:00
Hany Abu-Assad Film Screening and Discussion
Join us for a film screening of The Idol followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, two-time academy award nominee, Hany Abu-Assad.
Oscar Nominated Films
Filmography
The Idol, 2015
Omar, 2013
The Courier, 2011
Paradise Now, 2005
Ford Transit, 2002
Rana’s Wedding, 2002
Nazareth 2000, 2000
The 14th Chick, 1998
Apr
3
6:30 PM18:30
An Evening with Hany Abu-Assad
Join us for a special Master Class evening with two-time academy award nominee, Hany Abu-Assad.
Oscar Nominated Films
Filmography
The Idol, 2015
Omar, 2013
The Courier, 2011
Paradise Now, 2005
Ford Transit, 2002
Rana’s Wedding, 2002
Nazareth 2000, 2000
The 14th Chick, 1998
Apr
3
2:30 PM14:30
Seeing Like the Sea: The Politics of Solidarity and Pleasure Aboard the Ships to Gaza
This talk will begin medias maris – in the middle of the sea. Throughout the talk I show how this is a privileged vantage point from which we can re-think politics and theory, nature and humanity, today....
Feb
6
6:30 PM18:30
Man Without a Cell Phone
Twenty-something Palestinian-Israeli slacker Jawdat just wants to have fun with his friends, talk on his cell phone and find love. Instead, he navigates unconvincing dates with Muslim, Christian, and even Jewish girls, and wrestles with the Hebrew college entrance exam...
Jan
25
6:00 PM18:00
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
In The Way to the Spring, Ben Ehrenreich describes the cruel mechanics of the Israeli occupation and the endless absurdities and tragedies it engenders:..