Conceiving Return Against a Time of Genocide

June 12 2024, 19:00 Palestine time

The 2023-2024 genocide in Palestine is a product of Israel’s intensely racialized and militarized settler-colonial rule. In Gaza, Israel has killed many more than 35,000 people and destroyed the medical, higher education, and agricultural sectors. The housing sector and spaces of cultural and religious life and of primary education have been decimated. Both a medium-term possibility of rebuilding life in Gaza and ways to build toward Palestinian longstanding visions of return and liberation face dire threats. In this forum, we focus on the theme of return, especially in thinking and action from Gaza, ranging from memories of 1948, to the Great March of Return of 2018, to how Palestinians imagine the transformative return of liberation today across many Palestinian places.

Guest Speakers:

Andaleeb Adwan – Director of the Community Development & Media Center in Gaza.

Jehad Abusalim – DC-based writer and co-author of Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire. He's the Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development.

Rana Barakat – Professor of History at Birzeit University and the Director of the Birzeit Museum.

Rema Hammami – Professor of anthropology at Birzeit University and the current co-president of Insaniyyat.

This Insaniyyat talk is co-sponsored by the Middle East Section - American Anthropological Association

Registration required:

https://birzeit-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-6qpjoiGNSdrR1PkmIWWae-a19T30Ct