conference: past is present (settler colonialism in palestine)
7th Annual Conference
5- 6 March | Brunei Gallery | School of Oriental and African Studies – London
organised by
SOAS Palestine Society
and hosted by the
London Middle East Institute
Day One: Saturday, 5th March
Registration and Refreshments: 9.00-9.30
Opening and Keynote: 9.30-10.15
Hassan Hakimian – London Middle East Institute
New Jews for Old: Eliminationist Zionism and the Peopling of Palestine
Patrick Wolfe – La Trobe University
Session One – Empire, Settler Colonialism and Zionism: 10.15-11.45
Chair: Nelida Fuccaro
Playing the Zionist Card: The British Empire and the Middle East
John Newsinger – Bath Spa University
Literature of Settler Societies: Albert Camus, S. Yizhar, and Amos Oz
Gabriel Piterberg – University of California, Los Angeles
The Settler Colonialism Paradigm and its History in Revolutionary Palestinian Resistance Literature: Poetry and Politics
Naseer Aruri – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Refreshments: 11.45-12.00
Session Two – Zionism Destroys to Replace: 12.00-13.30
Chair: Laleh Khalili – School of Oriental and African Studies
The Palestinian Labour Market and the Politics of Zionist Settler Colonialism
Gershon Shafir – University of California, San Diego
The Erasure of the Native
Ilan Pappe – University of Exeter
The Second Phase of the Settler Colonial Conquest of Palestine: The 1967 Allon Plan and the Search for a Zionist ‘Settlement’
Gilbert Achcar – School of Oriental and African Studies
Session Three – Zionism Controls the Native: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Ruba Salih – School of Oriental and African Studies
Chronicles of a Cultural Destruction: The Appropriation of Palestinian Knowledge during the 1948 War
Gish Amit – Ben-Gurion University
Indigenous Citizens and the Contradictions of Status amongst Palestinians in Israel
As’ad Ghanem – Ibn Khaldun, The Arab Association for Research and Development
Frontier Wars and Robotic Colonisation
Eyal Weizman – Goldsmiths College
Session Four – A Political Economy of Settler Colonialism: 16.15-18.00
Chair: Elisa van Waeyenberge – School of Oriental and African Studies
A ‘Bad Lot’? Palestinian Businessmen and the British Colonial State
Sherene Seikaly – American University of Cairo
The Exploitation of the Palestinian Economy by Israel
Shir Hever – Alternative Information Center
Palestinian Capitalism, Regional Accumulation Processes and Implications for Liberation Strategy
Adam Hanieh – School of Oriental and African Studies
Day Two: Sunday 6th March 2011
Registration and Refreshments: 10.30-11.00
Keynote: 11.00-11.45
Letter from Gaza: On Colonialism, Capitalism and Resistance
Rabah Mohanna – Palestinian Legislative Council, Gaza
Counterfeit Citizenship: On the Politics of Property in Nahr El-Bared
Monika Halkort – Queen’s University, Belfast
Ethnic Cleansing in the Naqab: The Razings of the Bedouin Village of
Al-‘Araqib
Mansour Nsasra – University of Exeter
Policing, Self-Policing and Indigenous Collaboration
Mouin Rabbani – Institute of Palestine Studies
Lunch: 13.15-14.15
Session Six – Overcoming Zionism, Dismantling Settler Colonialism: 14.15-15.45 Chair: Jan Jananayagam – Tamils Against GenocideDecolonising Settler Colonialisms
Lorenzo Veracini – Swinburne University of Technology
The Power and Pitfalls of a Support Movement: Campaigning Against the Jewish National Fund
Selma James – International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Towards Common Liberation
Mezna Qato – University of Oxford
Refreshments: 15.45-16.00
Roundtable – Unsettling (Settler) Colonialism: 16.00-18.00
Tickets
Please note SEATS ARE LIMITED – book in advance
Price: £30 (£20 concessions, and £40 organisations) – all tickets include lunch and refreshments
To buy your tickets
Online – www.soaspalsoc.org
By cheque: Send cheques payable to SOAS Palestine Society with attached note of email address to: SOAS Palestine Society, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
Location
SOAS Brunei Gallery
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London, WC1H 0XG
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