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Deakin Anthropology Seminar – Speaking Across Generations and Geographies of the Ongoing Nakba

Deakin Anthropology Seminar – Speaking Across Generations and Geographies of the Ongoing Nakba

Event Venue:

Online

Abstract

Nakba, literally catastrophe, is a Palestinian concept for thinking about ongoing settler colonial dispossession since at least 1948. Thinking with this concept, we can see between 1948 and 2024 not just a repeat of past violence but also how past forms of violence are used by Israel to attempt to legitimize or set in motion current violence. How do Palestinians conceive moving forward today, a time of ongoing dispossession, repression of dissent, and death? In this talk, I propose that conversations that span geographic and generational difference are integral to maintaining Palestinian collectivity and to charting a path forward. Indigenous histories of struggle and storytelling exemplify how Palestinians can continue this work today.

Speaker Details

Amahl Bishara is Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty with the Department of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University. She is an anthropologist of media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, and placemaking. Her research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. She is the author of Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford, 2013), and Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford, 2022).

Additional Details

Our speaker will be presenting via Zoom:

Meeting ID: 839 9560 5502

Passcode: 11425605

Staff, HDRs and students are all welcome.

Any inquiries please contact David Giles d.giles@deakin.edu.au or Timothy Neale t.neale@deakin.edu.au

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