Palestinian Studies

2015 Workshop

People


Presenters


Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The Politics of Palestinian Folklore: Embroidery in The Diaspora


Ala Alazzeh
Birzeit University ─ West Bank, Palestine
State, Hegemony, and Re-Signification: Framing Resistance 


Ryvka Barnard
New York University ─ New York, New York, USA
Tourism, Heritage, and Narratives in/of Public Space in Occupied Bethlehem


Amahl Bishara
Tufts University ─ Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Varieties of Colonialism and the Politics of Fracture: Palestinian Acts of Speaking Together, Apart


Nell Gabiam
Iowa State University ─ Iowa, USA
Mapping Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora: Affective Attachments and Political Spaces.  


Rania Jawad
Birzeit University ─ West Bank, Palestine
Theatre in Palestine and its Other Documents


Jennifer Kelly
University of Texas at Austin ─ Austin, Texas, USA
Tourism under Occupation: Post-Oslo Fragmentation and the Labor of Narration


Chana Morgenstern
Brown University ─ Providence, RI, USA


Maha Nassar
University of Arizona ─ Tucson, Arizona, USA
Boycott and Solidarity at the 1968 World Youth Festival


Dina Omar
Yale University ─ New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Razing Rights/Rites of the Dead: Subjectivity and the Reconfiguration of Burial Sites and Practices


Sharri Plonski
School of Oriental and African Studies ─ London, UK
Unruly Resistance: Challenging the Borders of Palestinian Space inside Israel


Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
Mada al-Carmel, The Arab Center for Applied Social Research ─ Haifa, Israel 
The Zionist Left, Settler-Colonial Practices and the Nakba in Marj Ibn-Amer, 1936–1956 


Hanan Toukan
Free University ─ Berlin, Germany
The Paintbrush Is Mightier than the M16: On Imaging and Imagining Palestine in the Global Community


Gabriel Varghese
University of Exeterm ─ Exeter, UK
Acting of the Pain of Others


Polly Withers
University of Exeter ─ Exeter, UK
"I'm Not a Palestinian Musician, I am a Musician Who Happens To Be Palestinian": Negotiating Nationalisms in Youth Popular Music in Palestine


Nadia Yaqub
University of North Carolina ─ Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Opacity and Encounters in Palestinian Film


Discussants


Amal Amireh
George Mason University ─ Fairfax, VA, USA


Nadia Hijab
Al-Shabaka ─ Washington, DC, USA


Rhoda Kanaaneh
Columbia University ─ New York, NY, USA


Zachary Lockman
New York University ─ New York, NY, USA


Brinkley Messick
Columbia University ─ New York, NY, USA


Ilan Pappé
University of Exeter ─ Exeter, UK


Julie Peteet
University of Louisville ─ Louisville, KY, USA


Nadim Rouhana
The Fletcher School, Tufts University ─ Medford, MA, USA


Special Guests


Hanan Ashrawi
Legislator, Activist, and Scholar; Ramallah, Palestine


Hani Masri
Director General of Masarat ─ Ramallah, PALESTINE
Palestinian Options and Strategic Alternatives


Salim Tamari
Institute for Palestine Studies Senior Fellow


Organizer


Beshara Doumani
Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University