Event overview
This year marks 50 years of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories- Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and over 100 years of the dispossession of Palestine and Palestinians across historic Palestine. A situation that demands attention yet is more often than not staged through media reporting as compromising only of two opposing sides and without hope. In this seminar we forge a discussion with Palestinian scholars whose entire lives have been subjected to the Occupation and whose experience of studying in the UK as part of a British Council initiative ‘Higher Education Scholarship Palestine’ (HESPAL) furnishes new possibilities for their future and that of their country Palestine.
Speakers:
Karam Abughazale, HESPAL scholar, Sussex University
Ashjan Ajour, HESPAL scholar, Goldsmiths
Sahahr Alshobaki, HESPAL scholar, Kings College
Alessia Bergmeijer, Goldsmiths Palestine Society
Sufian Fannoun, HESPAL scholar, University of Chester
Afnan Jabr Alqadri, HESPAL scholar, Saint Mary University
Merna Kassis, British Council Palestinian Territories
Maram Khaled, HESPAL scholar, Birmingham University
David Oswell, Professor in Sociology, Goldsmiths
Annie Pfingst, Visiting Research Fellow, Sociology, Goldsmiths
Marsha Rosengarten, Professor in Sociology, Co-Director CISP, Goldsmiths
Juhayna Taha, HESPAL scholar, Edinburgh University and the British Council
Dates & times
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19 May 2017 | 2:00pm - 5:30pm |
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