2023 Workshop
People
Presenters
Ashjan Ajour
Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social, Historical and Political Studies, University of Wolverhampton
Hunger Strike Experience and the Embodiment of Palestinian Dispossession and Collective Revolutionary Subjectivity
Ph.D. candidate, New York University
Forced Labor Under British Occupation: Palestinian Prisoners' National-Class Struggle at Nur Shams Prison Labor Camp
Alessandra Amin
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
Palestine and the “Question of Freedom” at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival
Erica Augenstein
Ph.D. candidate, University of Houston
Resistance Uniting Anti-Colonial Theory: Gramsci’s Mezzogiorno and Palestinian
Sara Awartani
Collegiate Fellow & Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Weaponizing Solidarity: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and Counterterrorism in the Late Cold War
Nour Bader
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tunis
Digging Into the Roots: In the Meaning of Resisting Hidden Places and Invisible People
Abdalla N. Bayyari
Academic and Cultural Consultant, Darat Al-Funun
The Power of Dissensus: An Interdisciplinary, Comparative Approach for Undoing the Archival Erasure in/of Palestine
Alyssa Bivins
Ph.D. Candidate, George Washington University
Re-contextualizing East Jerusalem Education as Resistance: 1967 – 1994
Chandni Desai
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
“The Revolution of your Pens and Consciences”: Palestine and Afro-Asian Internationalism in Lotus
Julia Gettle
Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
Political Life in the Shadow Years: Palestinian Popular Mobilization in the 1950s
Thayer Hastings
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
First Intifada Bayanat and the Recurrences of Anticolonial Revolt
Patrick Higgins
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Houston
Return, Not Dependency: Palestinian Resistance to the “American Project” in the 1950s
Derek Ide
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Houston
Faculty, Miami University (Regionals)
On “Long Histories” of Solidarity: The Palestinian Revolution, al-Hadaf, and Black Anticolonialism
Fadi Kafeety
Ph.D. candidate, University of Houston
Revolutionary Horizons: The Movement of Arab Nationalists and the Marxist Turn in the Arabian Peninsula and Palestine
Faiq Mari
Ph.D. candidate, ETH Zürich
Alternative Spaces of Revolt: the Commons of Palestinian Liberation Struggle
Jennifer Mogannam
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis
Women of the Revolution: Palestinian Decolonial Praxis and Gendered Labor in Civil War Lebanon
Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex
The Palestinian Americas in the Age of Third World Revolution
Tareq Radi
Ph.D. Candidate, New York University
Indigenous Futures and Imperial Anxieties: A Ledger of Palestinian Insurgency and British Strategy of Necropolitical Hedging
Jeremy Randall
Associate Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY
Globalizing the Palestinian Resistance: The Laju Incident and the Siege of the Japanese Embassy in Kuwait
Samar Saeed
Ph.D. candidate, Georgetown University
Revolutionary women in Jordan during the 1960s-1970s
Klaudia Wieser
Ph.D. candidate, University of Vienna
Researching the Struggle: Palestinian Affairs in Revolutionary Beirut
Discussants
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Chancellor’s Professor, Department of History, University of California Berkeley
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Global Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London
Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies, Brown University
Chairs
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Bowdoin College
Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and History, New York University
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
Mahmoud Darwish chair in Palestinian Studies, Brown University
Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College
Organizer
Visiting Mahmoud Darwish Professor in Palestinian Studies, Brown University
Founder of the New Directions in Palestinian Studies Initiative
Beshara Doumani
President, Birzeit University
Inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, Brown University