Event overview
Feeling upset, overwhelmed and confused about what is happening in Gaza and Israel? Want to understand a little more about the context and history? Want a space to ask questions?
We are offering a public seminar to help students, staff and members of the broader community make sense of the current situation in the Middle East. To do this we have invited two scholars on Israel and Palestine: one Israeli, the other Palestinian. To start Professor Neve Gordon and Professor Ruba Salih will share some thoughts on what is currently happening as well as some background, drawing on their expertise. We will then open the floor for questions and discussion.
Details:
When: 4-6pm (UK time), Tuesday 24 October 2023
Where: Online- Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87202117921
Meeting ID: 872 0211 7921
Bios:
Neve Gordon is a Professor of International Law at Queen Mary, University of London and the Vice President of the British Society for Middle East Studies. He was a Professor of Politics at Ben Gurion University of The Negev, Israel, before moving to London. He has written a number of books on Israel and Palestine, human rights and international law including, Israel’s Occupation (2008), The Human Right to Dominate (2015) and Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (2020).
Ruba Salih is a political anthropologist whose research focuses on migration, refugees, diaspora, gender in Europe and the Middle East . In the last decade she has been involved in research and writing on Palestinians refugees political visions and imaginaries of “return”. She was a Professor at Soas, department of Anthropology, until 2022 when she left to take on a position as Professor of anthropology at the University of Bologna. She is a member of the board of the Society for Palestinian Anthropologists, Insaniyyat.
Please come along and also spread the word!
*This seminar is organised by Dr Sara Farris (Chair of Pivot, the Goldsmiths Sociology Anti-Racism Group) and Professor Kiran Grewal (Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Unit for Global Justice)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2023 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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