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On Behalf of the SOAS Palestine Society and Hosted by the London Middle
East Institute:
SOAS Conference: The Nakba: Sixty Years of Dispossession, Sixty Years of
Resistance
21st-22nd February 2009 | The Brunei Gallery - SOAS - University of London
Purchase your ticket here: www.soaspalsoc.org
Ticket includes lunch and refreshments
Day One: Saturday 21st February
Registration and refreshments: 9.00am-9.30am
Keynote: Walid Khalidi (Co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies)
From 1947 to 1897: From Partition to Basle
9.30am-10.30am
Session One: Memory, Erasure, and the Search for Palestinian History
10.30am-12.30pm
Chair: John Chalcraft (London School of Economics)
Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford)
Resistance History from Below and the Collective Retrieval of Memory:
Towards a New Historiography
Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
The Struggle Over Memory: the Future Agenda
Randa Farah (University of Western Ontario)
Palestinian Refugees and their Oral Histories: History's silence,
Memory's Burden
Lunch: 12.30pm-1.30pm
Session Two: The Challenge of Sources and the Persistence of Myth
1.30pm-3.00pm
Chair: Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
Saleh Abdel-Jawad (Birzeit University)
The Credibility and Limits of Refugee Oral Testimonies
Isabelle Humphries (University of Surrey)
Reading from a Different Archive: Alternative History and Palestinian
Internally Displaced of the Galilee
Norman Finkelstein (independent researcher)
The June 1967 War: What Bestsellers Proclaim, What Scholarship and
the Documentary Record Show
Refreshments: 3.00pm-3.15pm
Session Three: Cultural Resistance
3.15pm-4.45pm
Chair: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Barnard College, New York)
Salwa Mikdadi (Curator and Publisher)
Creative Uprising - Palestinian Artists Alternative Strategies of Resistance
Suleiman Mansour (Artist)
Artists in the Time of Revolution: Demands, Tensions, Contradictions
Sinan Antoon (New York University)
Darwish and the Poetics of Resistance
Refreshments: 4.45pm-5.00pm
Session Four: History of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement
5.00pm-6.45pm
Chair: Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Bashir Abu Manneh (Barnard College, New York)
Problems of Palestinian Liberation
Fadle Naqib (University of Waterloo)
The Economic Orientation of the Palestinian National Movement
Roger Heacock (Birzeit University)
Stones, Bullets, Ballots: Intifada, An Unfinished Drama in Several Acts
Khaled Hroub (University of Cambridge)
The Decline of Secular Nationalism and the Rise of Political Islam
Day Two: Sunday 22nd February
Session Five: Social and Economic History of Palestinian Resistance
10:45am-12:45pm
Chair: Roger Heacock (Birzeit University)
Musa Budeiri (Birzeit University)
What Would a Class Analysis of Palestinian history Conclude about
Possibilities of Palestinian Resistance? (tbc)
Penny Johnson (Birzeit University)
"The Big Ones Can Do Nothing": Reflections on the Histories of Women's
Struggles for Family, Community and Nation in the Lens of the
Palestinian present
Ahmad Sa'di (Ben Gurion University)
Resisting to Survive: The Palestinians in Israel During the First Two
Decades
Lori Allen (University of Cambridge)
Fatah and Hamas: Corruption and Political Ethics in Palestine
Lunch: 12.45pm-2.00pm
Session Six: Forces of Counter-Resistance: The (Still) Unvanquished
Enemies of Palestine
2:00pm-4:00pm
Chair: Fadle Naqib (University of Waterloo)
Moshe Machover (Kings College, London)
The long-term strategy of Zionist Colonisation
Seumas Milne (The Guardian)
The Role of Imperialism in the Palestine Tragedy
Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Collusions and Illusions: Arab States and Palestinian Liberation
Laleh Khalili (School of Oriental and African Studies)
The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies
Refreshments: 4.00pm-4.15pm
Session Seven - Roundtable discussion: The Meaning of Gaza: History
Reconsidered in Times of Catastrophe
4:15pm-6:00pm
Chair tbc
Karma Nabulsi, Saleh Abdel-Jawad, Gilbert Achcar, Norman Finkelstein,
Ilan Pappe
The Nakba: Sixty Years of Dispossession, Sixty Years of Resistance
Weekend Conference
Hosted by London Middle East Institute (SOAS)
Supported by Consolidated Contractors Company
21st-22nd February 2009 | The Brunei Gallery - SOAS - University of London
Tickets
Please note SEATS ARE LIMITED - book in advance
Price: £25 (£15 concessions, and £40 organisations)
All tickets include lunch and refreshments
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