2020 Workshop
People
Presenters
Lecturer, New York University Tel-Aviv
The "Holy Lands" of Jerusalm: Waqf/Trust Land and Inter-Communal Relations
PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona
Owning Extinction: Tracing Rhetorical Figurations of the Last Crocodile in Palestine
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chr. Michelsen Institute
From Mu’askar to Shu’fat camp: Humanitarian Contradictions and Refugees’ Struggles to Belong in Jerusalem
PhD Candidate in Law, King's College London
Legalities of Indigeneity and the Politics of Power in Palestine
Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University
British Land Reform and the Frontier Situation in Palestine
PhD Student in Earth and Environmental Science, City University of New York
Land Contestation and Class Formation in Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Families
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, London School of Economics
Custodians of Descent: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Family Waqf
PhD Candidate in Geography, University of California Los Angeles
Palestinian Countermapping: Reclaiming Pasts and Futures via Archives and Design
Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
Ownership without Guarantees: Palestinian Titles, Settler Markets, and the Problem of the Future
PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University
Ownership as a Battleground: The Politics of Planning and Land in Israel/Palestine [Co-author: Haim Yacobi]
Ph.D. Fellow at the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Evolving Regimes of Land Use and Ownership in the West Bank: Between Dispossession, Resistance to it, and Neoliberalism [Co-author: Laurence Roudart]
Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European University Institute
Visit Gaza: Promoting Ownership of Public Space in the Gaza Strip
PhD Student in American Studies, New York University
Cultivating Credit: Financialized Urbanization is Alienation!
Independent Researcher
Custodians of Law: Palestine Refugees, Property Rights, Legal Paradigms (1948-1968)
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Harvard University
Martyrs as State Property: The Cemeteries of Numbers as a Case Study in Body Commodification
Professor of Development Planning, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London
Ownership as a Battleground: The Politics of Planning and Land in Israel/Palestine [Co-author: Elya Milner]
Discussants
Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College
Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Brown University
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
Assistant Professor in Criminology, Ryerson University in Toronto
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Guests and Attendees
Thomas Abowd, Tufts University
Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University
Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon College
Rawan Arar, University of Washington
Ariella Azoulay, Brown University
Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Kate Creasey, Brown University
Emily Drumsta, Brown University
Julia Gettle, Brown University
Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts Boston
Ilana Feldman, George Washington University
Zachary Lockman, New York University
Omar Masri, Munib and Angela Masri Foundation
Penelope Mitchell, Palestinian American Research Center
Sreemati Mitter, Brown University
Adi Ophir, Brown University
Sherena Razek, Brown University
Samee Sulaiman, Brown University
Maia Tabet, Journal of Palestine Studies
Lana Tatour, Columbia University
Alex Winder, Brown University
Lydia Zakel, Indiana University
Organizers
Beshara Doumani
Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Professor of History, Brown University
Paul Kohlbry
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies, Brown University