Join the Post-Conflict Cities Lab and GSAPP MS and PhD Students for a talk with Nora Akawi (The Cooper Union) and Léopold Lambert (The Funambulist).
Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and an assistant professor at The Cooper Union. She focuses on erasure and bordering in settler colonialism and works at the intersection of architecture with border studies, cartography, and archive theory. Nora previously taught at GSAPP, where she was the director of Studio-X Amman since 2012, and the founding director of the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar since 2015. Read more.
Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. Read more.
Please note that in-person attendance is limited to GSAPP affiliates and that seating is first come, first served. Other CUID holders and members of the public can attend via Zoom.
ATTEND | Ali Musleh's MESA Presentation on 11/04/23
Going to MESA? Be sure to check out, “Acoustic Ecologies of the Middle East,” on Saturday, November 4 at 11am. Ali Musleh will present his paper, “A Musicology of Settler Colonialism,” as part of the panel.
ABSTRACT
This paper explores how settler-colonial sonic spheres in Palestine translate topologies of experience into topologies of power. My focus will be on Israel’s use of remote and autonomous weapons, particularly drones, the Iron Dome and artificial intelligence, as atmotechnics productive of violent compositional beats that place the sensing bodies of the colonizer and the colonized in processual proximity to war. My argument is that such machining of experience is meant to individuate forms of life by hacking the nervous system, turning fear into a neural implant that can be engaged through giving war a musical character. Drawing on martial and affect theory, as well as theories of the flesh, I show how settler-colonial violence individuates forms of life according to an economy of pain that conditions Israelis’ experience of “the quiet” on the relentless invasion and hacking of the Palestinian sensorium.
ATTEND | Edward Said Memorial Lecture "The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said" Richard Falk, Public Intellectual and Professor of International Law
6 pm (CAIRO TIME)
Please click the link below to register for the zoom webinar:
CONGRATS | Tim Mitchell, Recipient of the Grain of Sand Award, from the American Political Science Association
CPS congratulates faculty member, Timothy Mitchell, William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, on receiving the Grain of Sand Award, a career award from the American Political Science Association, Interpretive Methodologies and Methods unit. The award honors a scholar whose contributions demonstrate creative and sustained engagement with questions of enduring political importance from an interpretive perspective.
WATCH | Palestine and the Logic of Denial w/ Saree Makdisi
On Monday, 23 October 2023, the Center for Palestine Studies and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities hosted Saree Makdisi for a talk about his recent book, Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022), and commentary on the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel and the ongoing war on Gaza.
WATCH | Rashid Khalidi on Democracy Now! 10/09/23
APPLY | 2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian Women Pursuing PhDs
The Palestinian American Research Center announces the inauguration of The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. The Scholarship was established in honor of the late Tanya Baker-Asad, an anthropologist, a feminist, and a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause. A woman of great integrity and compassion, and with a strong sense of justice, Tanya Baker-Asad was a researcher and a teacher who remained steadfast in her commitment to improving the lives of women, particularly those living under conditions of hardship and political repression. The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship was established by Baker-Asad’s husband, Talal Asad.
Qualified applicants should either be enrolled or in the process of enrolling in a doctoral program in the humanities or social sciences at an accredited university anywhere in the world. The maximum Scholarship award for academic year 2024/2025 is $25,000, while the duration of the award is for one year. The Scholarship may be used for any expenses related to the pursuit of the degree (e.g. tuition, research expenses, dissertation write-up support, living expenses).
Information about this competition:
Applicants must be women of Palestinian heritage.
Applicants must be scholars enrolled, or in the process of enrolling in a PhD program at an accredited university anywhere in the world.
Fields of study include, but are not limited to, anthropology, sociology, economics, history, philosophy, religious studies, political science, psychology, geography, literature, languages and linguistics, archaeology, art history, media studies, and film studies.
The Scholarship can be used for any expenses related to the pursuit of the degree (e.g. tuition, research expenses, dissertation write-up support, living expenses).
Applications due January 8, 2024 | Awards announced April 18, 2024
For complete information, visit PARC’s website at https://www.parc-us-pal.org.
The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship is supported by
the Tanya Baker-Asad Fund
ATTEND | Bisan Lecture Series w/ Rashid Khalidi on 10/11/23
The Latest Phase of the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Online | 12pm New York
For over a century, Palestine has been the scene of a war meant to wrest the country from its indigenous population. This war was waged by a settler-colonial movement with the unstinting backing, and sometimes the participation of, outside powers. Enormous discursive efforts have been exerted to obfuscate the basic nature of this struggle, and to present it solely in its religious, national and other dimensions. Faced with an ongoing and relentless process of dispossession, and with their very existence as a people threatened, the Palestinians have resisted against tremendous odds. This war may be entering a new phase, with an aggressive Israeli regime still fully supported by the US openly committed to completing the settler colonial project, but meeting mounting Palestinian defiance and growing global condemnation of its openly supremacist and racist nature.
Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a D. Phil. from Oxford University, and has previously taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and has served as President of the Middle East Studies Association. He is the author of eight books, most recently The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, and of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has co-edited three books.