Mar 15–16, 2019
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2019 – Palestinian Homes and Houses: Subjectivities and Materialities
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m Pembroke Center, PH305
Event Archive
Mar 21, 2018
CANCELED: Alex Winder – Race, Religion, Empire, and the Palestine Police: In Pursuit of "A Suitable Proportion of 'Neutrals'"
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 9–10, 2018
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2018 – The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
New Directions in Palestinian Studies Workshop 2018 – The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 8, 2018
9th Critical Conversations Panel – Permission to Speak: Boycott and the Politics of Solidarity
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Building, 190 Thayer Street
Feb 28, 2018
Guy Ben-Porat – Police, Violence and Legitimacy: From Baltimore to Tel-Aviv
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 14, 2017
Nov 3, 2017
Magic Lantern Cinema | A Pre-Symposium Screening for "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
5pm – 8pm ListArt120, 64 College Street, Providence, RI
Sep 13, 2017
Adi Ophir – Israel/Palestine – the Exception, the Example, and the Rule
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 13, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Israel/Palestine - the Exception, the Example, and the Rule
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 13, 2017
How does the U.S. Government frame the two-state solution? A reflection on past government policies in order to find peace for the future
7pm – 9pm Petteruti Lounge, Campus Center (Faunce)
Mar 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Starting the Revolution from a Different Place: Art, Dissent and Diplomacy in the Arab World
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 3–31, 2017
Exhibition | Time Machine: Stereoscopic Views from Palestine, 1900
Pembroke Hall (Ground Floor Lobby)
Mar 3–4, 2017
New Directions in Palestinian Studies | The Politics of Archives and the Practices of Memory
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 2, 2017
8th Critical Conversations Panel | Palestine-Israel in the Trump Era
5:30pm – 7:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Oct 26, 2016
Luncheon Seminar | The Zionist left: Settler colonial practices and the representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate, Middle East Studies, Brown University, “The Zionist left: Settler colonial practices and the representation of the Palestinian Nakba in Northern Palestine.” This event is at capacity.
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Sep 14, 2016
Sreemati Mitter/“No Doubt The Actual Oranges Have Already Been Consumed By The British Public
Sreemati Mitter, Assistant Professor of History and International and Public Affairs. “No Doubt The Actual Oranges Have Already Been Consumed By The British Public”: Palestinian Citrus Growers Sue Barclays Bank, 1956.
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Mar 10, 2016
Lecture / Gaza: Cast Backwards, A Way Forward
12pm – 1:35pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Mar 4–5, 2016
“Approaches to Research on Palestine and the Palestinians” / closed workshop
This closed workshop will be the third annual meeting of New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS).
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Mar 3, 2016
Critical Conversations # 6: Suffocating Embrace? The Futures of Palestinians in Israel
Every semester, Middle East Studies holds a public discussion, Critical Conversations on Palestine/Israel featuring distinguished panelists.
5:30pm – 7:30pm Macmillan 117, Starr Auditorium, 167 Thayer Street Providence, RI 02912 United States
Feb 24, 2016
Film Screening of “Omar” / Palestine
“Omar” (2013) written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Arabic with English subtitles. 1 hour 38 minutes.
7pm – 9pm
Nov 17, 2015
Workshop on “The Politics of Human Shielding”
BY INVITATION Organized by Nicola Perugini, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and Middle East Studies, and Neve Gordon, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Middle East Studies | Brown.
9:15am – 5:30pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Oct 28, 2015
Oct 20, 2015
Smadar Lavie – “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture”
4pm – 6pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Sep 24, 2015
Raw Cuts: Palestine, Israel, and (Post) Colonial Studies / Ann Stoler lecture
4:30pm – 6:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Sep 23, 2015
Film Screening: “The Wanted 18 – directed by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan
Middle East Studies film presented by Nicola Perugini, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and Middle East Studies.
7pm – 9pm