TUESDAY
19 APR 2022
6:00-7:30pm ET
Palestinians have long developed a racial theory of Zionism. The Oslo Peace Process, initiated in the early 1990s, subsumed these theories and others that poignantly framed the Palestinian freedom struggle as one against settler colonization, into a peace and justice framework that eschewed the consequential dimension of power. The collapse of the Peace Process at the Camp David talks in 2000 and the Second Palestinian Intifada that followed created fertile grounds for Palestinian advocates and intellectuals to return to a racial and colonial analysis to describe their conditions of unfreedom. The 2014 Gaza-Ferguson moment, marking renewals of Black Palestinian transnational solidarity, catalyzed these analytical returns and acutely re-centered the questions of race, racism, and Palestine among analysts, activists, and scholars. This panel featuring leading scholars of race, law, colonialism, and political economy will take on some of these questions to address racial ideologies, Palestinian intellectual traditions, anti-Blackness, legacies of slavery in the Middle East, and sovereignty frameworks to undergird and advance these ongoing conversations.
Speakers
Noura Erakat, Rutgers University, NJ
Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University, PA
John Reynolds, Maynooth University, Ireland
Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lana Tatour, University of South Wales, Australia
This event is organized by CMES, Brown University. For more info, click here.