DATE
Monday, October 31, 2022 - 9:00am - Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - 6:00pm
LOCATION
Birzeit, Online
The Institute for Palestine Studies, in partnership with several research centers in the region, Europe and North America are organizing a conference titled “Reassessing the British Mandate in Palestine”, 31 October – 2 November 2022.
The British Mandate (1922-1948) represents over a quarter-century in the modern history of Palestine during which the groundwork was laid for the usurpation of Palestinian political rights and the establishment of a Zionist state. It was also a period of vibrant Palestinian mobilization, which was already in motion during the late Ottoman era, and through the mandate, reaching its height during the rebellion of 1936-1939—across cities and the countryside—to respond to newly emerging realities.
It is this vibrancy that the conference seeks to explore. Beyond treating the Mandate as a legal and political system, the conference revisits the social, legal, cultural, economic, and political history of Palestine and Palestinians during the Mandate period. It brings together scholars from Chile to Palestine and beyond, working on a wide array of disciplines and topics.
The conference will convene in Arabic and English, with simultaneous interpretation available.
For more info, visit the Institute for Palestine Studies website, here.
SPEAKERS
Hana Sleiman, Beshara B. Doumani, Khaled Farraj, Nazmi Jubeh, Maher Charif, Gabriel Polley, Magdalena Pycinska, Hussein Ayaseh, Lorenzo Kamel, Toufic Haddad, Hamdan Taha, Sarah Irving, Beverley Butler, Salim Tamari, Rana Anani, Sarah Dweik, Dennis Sobeh, Hadeel Karkar, Hamed Salem, Brian Boyd, Mahmoud Hawari, Munir Fakher Eldin, Adel Manna, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Chris Sandal-Wilson, Cynthia Kreichati, Islah Jad, Rasha Salameh, Areej Abou Harb, Dia Barghouti, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Ibrahim Abdou, Musa Sroor, Charles W. Anderson, Mai Taha, Tareq Radi, Sana Hammoudi, Ghada al-Madbouh, Jehad Alshwaikh, Bassam Abun-Nadi, Nadi Abusaada, Nisa Ari, Issam Nassar, Samar al-Saleh, Bret Windhauser, Marisa Gabrielle Natale, Joni Aasi, Laura Robson, Ghassan Khatib, Canan Özcan Eliaçık, Ricardo Marzuca, Sreemati Mitter, Riyad Musa, Lana Judeh, Leena Dallasheh, Falestin Nail, iLaila Parsons, Julio Moreno Cirujano, Majdi al-Malki, Pietro Stefanini, Martin Bunton, Rachel Mairs, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Terry Regier, Maha Samman, Jacob Norris, Sharri Plonski, Nivi Manchanda, Dalal Iriqat, Jens Hanssen, Hanna Al Taher, Sarah el-Bulbeisi, Anna-E. Younes, Sanabel Abdelrahman, Rana Barakat, Ilana Feldman, Amal Bishara, Alejandro Paz, Sherene Seikaly
The conference is jointly sponsored by the following institutions: Birzeit University; Council for British Research in the Levant; New Directions in Palestine Studies, Brown University; Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University; Hearing Palestine, University of Toronto; European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter; Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
