Artwork by: Mohammad Nasrallah Anthem of the Soil (1989)نشيد التراب
The tenth annual workshop of New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS)
April 4–5, 2025,
"(Re)Building Lives, Forging Futures"
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025
8:15 a.m.: Shuttle Pick Up at Hampton Inn Suites to Watson Institute
8:30-9:30 a.m.: Workshop Registration and Continental Breakfast
McKinney Conference Room (353), Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912
9:30 a.m.: Introductions and Opening Remarks
Beshara Doumani (Brown University)
10:15 a.m.: Session I: Making Space
Chair Amahl Bishara (Tufts University)
Heba Alnajada (Boston University) (Re)inscribing the Ruins of ‘Informality’ with Palestinian Tahjir and its Camps
Lucy Garbett (London School of Economics) ‘Bits and Pieces Planning’: Palestinian Modalities of Housing in Jerusalem
Orwa Switat (Harvard Divinity School) Palestinian Urban Steadfastness, Regeneration, and Insurgency
12:00 p.m.: Lunch
1:30 p.m.: Session II: The Archive
Chair: Kirsten Weld (Harvard University)
Falestin Naïli (University of Basel) Resistant Archives Against the (F)utility of History
Fady Asleh (Khazaaen: The Jerusalem Archive for Palestinian Social History) Documenting the War: Archiving as a Tool for Survival in Gaza
Freja Howat: (University of Sussex) Beyond the Networked Archive: The Many ‘Sites’ of Future Palestine
3:15 p.m. Break
3:45-5:30 p.m.: Session III: Popular Mobilizations
Chair: Charles Anderson (Western Washington University)
Julia Gettle: (Brown University) Catastrophe as crucible: The Regeneration of Palestinian Politics through Nakba-era Student Political Life
Weeam Hammoudeh (University of Denver) and Layth Hanbali (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Sumud and Resistance Through Healthcare Provision: A History of Popular Mobilizations in Healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory
6:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner at the Hope Club (6 Benevolent St, Providence, RI 02906)
8:30 p.m.: Shuttle Pick Up at Hope Club to Hampton Inn Suites
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025
8:30 a.m.: Shuttle Pick Up at Hampton Inn Suites to Watson Institute
8:30-9:30 a.m.: Breakfast
9:30 a.m.: Session IV: Making Do
Chair: Mack Scott (Brown University)
Dima Saad (University of Michigan) Clothing and the Palestinian Refugee Experience, 1948-1968
Atwa Jaber (Geneva Graduate Institute) “Amman-Nuseirat-Jericho”: Forced Displacement, Erasure, and the Forgotten Story of Clandestine Return to the Occupied Jordan Valley, 1967
Marlaina Yost (Yale University) “From Gaza, With Love”: Floriculture in Post-Oslo Palestine
11:15 a.m.: Brown Bag Lunch
11:45 a.m.: Session V: The Body
Chair: Khaled Fahmy (Tufts University)
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Princeton University) Ashlaa' and the Genocide in Gaza
Liat Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois at Chicago) Resisting Carceral Eugenics and Forging Palestinian Futures
Samee Sulaiman (Brown University) Disability and the Reconstruction of Life in Gaza: Present Realities and Future Speculations
1:30 p.m. Break
1:45-3:00 p.m. Closing Discussion