Join the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs on Wednesday, March 24th, for a live conversation between Jeffrey Sachs and Rashid Khalidi, author of this month's featured book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.
WATCH | The Arab + Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine + Beyond
Missed our book talk with Bashir Bashir, Gil Anidjar, Leila Farsakh, Sherene Seiklay and Nadia Abu El-Haj about The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond, published by Columbia University Press in 2020? You can now watch the recording on the Center’s YouTube Channel.
Nadia Abu El-Haj is the Ann Olin Whitney Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia
Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Departments of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)
Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Leila Farsakh is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston
Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
ATTEND | The Arab Jacobins: The Lebanese National Movement, the Palestinian Revolution, + the Struggle for Popular Sovereignty in the Arab East
Nate George will give his talk, “The Arab Jacobins: The Lebanese National Movement, the Palestinian Revolution, and the Struggle for Popular Sovereignty in the Arab East,” on 15 MAR 2021 at 12pm EDT.
In his talk, Nate will begin to excavate the buried history—concealed and repressed by a string of bitter defeats—of the intertwined struggle to abolish sectarian political representation and liberate Palestine.
Nate is the 2020-21 IAL Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies.
For more information about the talk, organized by Bard College, visit the event page.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/87261751851?pwd=WWRDQ3JjNEwwdlBXQWJKTElnR0MxZz09
Meeting ID: 872 6175 1851
Passcode: 411734
ATTEND | Implications of ICC's Jurisdiction on the West Bank + Gaza
On 5 February, the ICC decided that the Court's territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. On 3 March, the Prosecutor announced the opening of her investigation into the Situation in Palestine.
This webinar, organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies, will examine the legal and political implications of this decision and what it may entail. Amongst the questions this webinar will address are whether this decision constitutes a recognition of Palestinian sovereignty over the territories occupied in 1967, how this affects conflicting Israeli and Palestinian claims, what the negative reactions from the U.S. and other international parties may entail, what enforcement mechanisms are likely, and what the decision means in terms of precedents for both sides.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Ahmad Samih Khalidi (moderator) is an academic visitor at St. Antony's College, Oxford and Associate Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Geneva, and Senior Fellow and co-editor of the Arabic journal at the Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut.
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and President of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA.
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014).
Hala Khoury-Bisharat is a lecturer and the academic director of the law school in Ono Academic College, Haifa Campus and adjunct lecturer at the law faculty in Tel Aviv University.
Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has represented or is representing victims before the International Criminal Court including regarding persecution by Israeli officials in the Situation of Palestine.
Camille Mansour is the secretary-general of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Palestine Studies, and chief-editor of the Interactive Timeline of the Palestine Question, a joint IPS-Palestinian Museum project.
Visit the IPS event page, here.
WATCH | Libraries in late Ottoman + post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham w/ K. Hirschler
If you missed the second installment of Readings in the Khalidiyya, you can watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.
Konrad Hirschler, a leading scholar on regional libraries such as the Khalidiyya gave his talk, “Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Jerusalem Khalidiyya Library in Context" on 16 February 2021 at 1pm NY/ 8pm Jerusalem.
Ahmed El Shamsy, author of Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Princeton, 2020), gave commentary, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Readings in the Khalidiyya is a series about The Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection, accessibility through digitization and new scholarly inquiries.
APPLY | IAL APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 1 MARCH 21
APPLICATION DEADLINE
1 MARCH 2021
This year-long postdoctoral fellowship seeks to recognize and foster ground-breaking scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will support a scholar working on a book project in any field of the humanities or social sciences who will spend the academic year at Columbia University in New York, pursuing their research and writing, contributing to curricular matters, and participating in the intellectual life of the Center for Palestine Studies.
Established in 2010, the IAL Award was made possible through the generosity of the late Abdel Mohsin Al-Qattan in honor of his friend, the Palestinian scholar and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929-2001). Their close friendship began in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948 and evolved into a shared commitment to justice for Palestinians to be realized through support for excellence in higher education and scholarship. Major support for the IAL Award comes from the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
For complete information about eligibility and the application process, visit the IAL section of the Center's website.
WATCH | CONVO W/ FILMMAKERS JUNA SULEIMAN + MONA BENYAMIN, MODERATED BY NADIA YAQUB
Missed our event with Juna Suleiman, Mona Benyamin and Nadia Yaqub? Watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.
Conversation + Q&A with Palestinian directors Juna Suleiman and Mona Benyamin and moderator Nadia Yaqub (UNC Chapel Hill). Discussion topics include interpersonal relationships and generational differences within Palestinian society, censorship, making film under occupation and the power of film to challenge viewers. For panelist bios and film synopses, click here.
The conversation held on 26 Jan 2021 was presented as part of 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN,' a semester-long collaboration between the Center for Palestine Studies and LIFTA Volumes and is co-presented by Cher Asad and Lena Mansour.
The series is co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University.
Don’t miss ‘Palestinian Feminist Discourses: Contemporary Views and Emerging Movements,’ the next event in the program, scheduled for 11 Feb 2021, with Riya Al'Sanah, Nour Swirki, Yara Hawari, and Ghadir al Shafie and moderated by Aamer Ibraheem.
CPS 10 Year Report
This report celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Center for Palestine Studies, a decade of achievements to be marked by special programming, reflection and planning for the future.
The original and continuing mission of CPS is to promote the academic study of Palestine by supporting research, teaching, and intellectual collaboration among scholars within Columbia and beyond. The Center provides an institutional home for faculty, visiting scholars and students at Columbia across the academic disciplines and the arts. It builds connections with artists, scholars and institutions to strengthen the academic study and artistic representation of Palestine and Palestinians throughout the United States and around the world.
We hope you enjoy revisiting highlights from our work over the last decade and learning about our current and upcoming initiatives.