Palestine Studies at University of Toronto
March 20th, 1-3pm at University of Toronto Scarborough Campus
Room Available to Registered Participants
Bio:
Rana Barakat is an associate professor in the department of history at Birzeit University and the director of BZU Museum. Her forthcoming book with University of North Carolina Press is titled: Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine.
Monday, May 9 2022, 6:30PM – 8:30PM.
Event Overview:
Systemic racism against Palestinians has appeared in several recent events at the University of Toronto and the TDSB, as well as other Canadian educational institutions. In its widely-anticipated report, the Arab Canadians Lawyers Association (ACLA) seeks to describe anti-Palestinian racism and launch a wider discussion about how to combat it. This webinar features Dania Majid, the chief author of the ACLA report, and responses from Abigail Bakan and Azeezah Kanji.
Conference is planned to be held in a hybrid format, with an in-person component in Palestine. Funding may be provided to cover partial or full conference travel expenses. Further details to be shared with accepted participants.
Apply: Submit an abstract (300 words max) to palestinestudies@utoronto.ca
Deadline: April 25th, 2022.
Late submissions may be accepted if an intention to submit is communicated via e-mail prior to the deadline.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the following institutions: Birzeit University; Council for British Research in the Levant; New Directions in Palestine Studies, Brown University; Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University; Hearing Palestine, University of Toronto; European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter; Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; Institute for Palestine Studies.
***Please note that this Expression of Interest is limited to faculty working at the University of Toronto Tri-Campus***
The Hearing Palestine initiative invites Faculty at the University of Toronto to express their interest in serving on a newly formed Programmatic Advisory Board. Selected Faculty will serve for a two-year term, beginning on January 24, 2022.
The Programmatic Advisory Board is a working board that both advises the Steering Committee and contributes to the academic mission of Hearing Palestine. During the two-year period, members of the Programmatic Advisory Board commit to integrating a programmatic vision into a range of content and activities of Hearing Palestine.
Hearing Palestine provides an intellectual hub at the University of Toronto that facilitates advanced and interdisciplinary research on Palestine, past, present, and future.
This open-call for expression of interest is designed to bring together the impressive faculty resources across all three UofT campuses to strengthen and diversify the scholarly community who engage with and study Palestine from a variety of fields and disciplines.
The Hearing Palestine Steering Committee will evaluate all applications in light of the core aims of the initiative, the ongoing programmatic planning for the coming year(s), and the capacity of Hearing Palestine existing resources to support the proposed programmatic content.
All applicants are encouraged to visit the Hearing Palestine website for information on the initiative’s academic vision, missions, and programmatic objectives.
Preference will be given to proposals that supportHearing Palestine’s aim to redress the Palestine exception to academic freedom, and Hearing Palestine’s programmatic needs, strategic planning goals, and the required resources to support the proposals.
To apply, please submit an application that contains the following information:
Please email submissions to palestinestudies@utoronto.ca with the Subject line “Expression of Interest Submission” by Thursday, January 6, 2022.
All inquiries may be directed to palestinestudies@utoronto.ca
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A PDF version of this Expression of Interest can be found here.
Title: The Study of Palestine from “The Undercommons”: Anti-colonial Epistemologies, Method, and Praxis
Speaker: Chandni Desi, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto
Date: November 25, 2021
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST
Description:
Dr. Desai joins us for a talk that focuses on the challenges and contradictions of preserving Palestine, from occupied Palestine to campuses in Canada.
The talk will examine the systematic attempts at dislocating, displacing, and erasing Palestinian archives, by the Israeli state and other actors that have contributed to curricular erasures. The talk will also speak to the epistemic challenges of studying Palestine from “the undercommons”, a space of epistemic resistance to settler colonial erasure.
Dr. Chandni Desai
Chandni Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity at UofT. Her areas of interest and expertise include comparative settler colonialism, capitalist imperialism, Middle East politics, state violence, cultural resistance, political economy, anti-racism, feminism, youth activism, decolonization and abolition. Dr. Desai is working on her first book Revolutionary Circuits of Liberation: The Radical Tradition of Palestinian Resistance Culture and Internationalism. In it she excavates the history of the radical tradition of Palestinian resistance culture, specifically the cultural institutions, archives and radical arts practices established by Palestinian revolutionaries. She maps the circulation of resistance culture across geographies in the 20th and 21st century, the legacy of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist cultural production, and praxis against settler colonial dispossession, imperialism, warfare and genocide, past and present.
Desai is also the host of the Liberation Pedagogy Podcast, a co-investigator on a SSHRC insight development grant, a collaborator on the SSHRC funded Youth, War, Migration Project and has co-taught an ELL course on settler colonialism, displacement and settlement to refugees from the Middle East and Africa. I know I speak for many students when I say that we are very fortunate to have her as an academic, leader, and instructor at the University of Toronto.
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