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April 2024

March 2024

Insaniyyat Talks: Censored: Palestine in European Academia

Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, many universities and higher education institutions across Europe have intensified efforts to repress Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices, and censor critical debate on Palestine. This has included; the cancelation of events and lectures, the terminating of critical visiting scholars, threats to de-matriculate pro-Palestinian students, and the censorship of critical frameworks to understand the conflict such as Apartheid and settler colonialism.

Call for Papers: Holding onto Palestine. Reimagining Anthropology at a Time of Genocide, 2024 - Deadline Extended

Much like 1948 and 1967, 7 October 2023 ushered in a violent project of erasure and elimination of Palestinians as an indigenous population. While uncertainty, fear and anguish have been features of Palestinian daily life for decades, at this time of high-flame violence, with their habitat becoming spaces of blatantly visible non-life, questions of the meaning and practice of remaining present, of existence itself, have never been more urgent. These extreme times require a bold agenda for critical inquiry. How can anthropology make sense of contemporary mass killing, large scale physical destruction, genocidal rhetoric and transfer plans as colonial powers seek to destroy and empty Gaza while silencing criticism and dissent dissent around the world?