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Insaniyyat Talks: Censored: Palestine in European Academia

Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, many universities and higher education institutions across Europe have intensified efforts to repress Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices, and censor critical debate on Palestine. This has included; the cancelation of events and lectures, the terminating of critical visiting scholars, threats to de-matriculate pro-Palestinian students, and the censorship of critical frameworks to understand the conflict such as Apartheid and settler colonialism.

Call for Papers: Holding onto Palestine. Reimagining Anthropology at a Time of Genocide, 2024 - Deadline Extended

Much like 1948 and 1967, 7 October 2023 ushered in a violent project of erasure and elimination of Palestinians as an indigenous population. While uncertainty, fear and anguish have been features of Palestinian daily life for decades, at this time of high-flame violence, with their habitat becoming spaces of blatantly visible non-life, questions of the meaning and practice of remaining present, of existence itself, have never been more urgent. These extreme times require a bold agenda for critical inquiry. How can anthropology make sense of contemporary mass killing, large scale physical destruction, genocidal rhetoric and transfer plans as colonial powers seek to destroy and empty Gaza while silencing criticism and dissent dissent around the world?

Insaniyyat Talks: Indigeneity, Land and Colonial Settlement in Brazil and in Palestine: Intersections and Struggles

Given the urgency of tackling colonial violence in Gaza, this event is a partnership between ABA (Brazilian Association of Anthropology) and Insaniyyat (Society of Palestinian Anthropologists), around key topics both in Brazilian and Palestinian contexts. How can well-established anthropological work on indigeneity, land and colonial settlement in Palestinian contexts resonate with comparable work in/about Brazil? And what does anthropology in Brazilian contexts have to offer back to the Palestinian context?

Holding onto Palestine. Reimagining Anthropology at a Time of Genocide, 12 - 15 September 2024 (Online)

Keynote Lecture: “Unethical Anthropology and Anthropology of the Unethical” By Prof. Ghassan Hage

Much like 1948 and 1967, 7 October 2023 ushered in a violent project of erasure and elimination of Palestinians as an indigenous population. While uncertainty, fear and anguish have been features of Palestinian daily life for decades, at this time of high-flame violence, with their habitat becoming spaces of blatantly visible non-life, questions of the meaning and practice of remaining present, of existence itself, have never been more urgent.

Insaniyyat Talks: Conceiving Return Against a time of Genocide

The 2023-2024 genocide in Palestine is a product of Israel’s intensely racialized and militarized settler-colonial rule. In Gaza, Israel has killed many more than 35,000 people and destroyed the medical, higher education, and agricultural sectors. The housing sector and spaces of cultural and religious life and of primary education have been decimated. Both a medium-term possibility of rebuilding life in Gaza and ways to build toward Palestinian longstanding visions of return and liberation face dire threats. In this forum, we focus on the theme of return, especially in thinking and action from Gaza, ranging from memories of 1948, to the Great March of Return of 2018, to how Palestinians imagine the transformative return of liberation today across many Palestinian places.