The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past

The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past

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. 

2nd Annual Palestinian Film Festival in Santiago, Chile Muestra de Cine Palestino de Santiago December 10-13, 2015 at Cineteca Nacional de Chile

2nd Annual Palestinian Film Festival in Santiago, Chile Muestra de Cine Palestino de Santiago December 10-13, 2015 at Cineteca Nacional de Chile

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). 

The Zionist left: Settler colonial practices and the representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine

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. 

The Ethics of Trauma: Moral Injury, Combat, and U.S. Empire

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.