Zainab Yusofi

Discussion and Response from Prof. Ariel Katz (U of Toronto, Law)

Date and time

Mon, Feb 24, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

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About Our Speaker

Fateh Azzam Is a Palestinian human rights researcher and consultant. His professional experience spanned work in civil society, philanthropy, academia and the United Nations, having served as founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, Middle East Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo and director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. He volunteers as Board Chair of Visualizing Palestine and member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion in The Hague. Fateh has published studies and book chapters on human rights and humanitarian law, the responsibility to protect, the Arab and Palestinian human rights movement and citizenship in Palestine and the Arab region. He is also author of two plays, Ansar and Baggage, and most recently adapted and co-Directed The Gaza Monologues in Maine where he lives.

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Join Palestine Open Maps and Hearing Palestine for a Mapathon with Geography PhD student Majd Al-Shihabi, who guides students through creating maps of Palestine, telling the history and present reality of the land through geographic visuals. An interactive hands-on workshop where you will learn about open mapping tools and extracting data from Mandate-era maps of Palestine. No experience necessary, just bring along your fully charged laptop (and a mouse if you have one).

When and Where

Tuesday, December 03, 2024 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

MN Grand Hall, University of Toronto Mississauga

Speakers

Rebecca Wittmann (University of Toronto)

Omer Bartov (Brown University)

Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto)

Description

He left the house to buy some bread for his kids.
News of his death made it home,
but not the bread.
No bread.
— Under the Rubble, by Mosab Abu Toha

Rebecca Wittmann is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and postwar Germany, trials of Nazi perpetrators and terrorists, and German legal history. Her book, Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her edited volume, The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, has recently been published with the University of Toronto Press.

Omer Bartov was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (1985), and Hitler’s Army (1991). Bartov’s new book, Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis, has just come out. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. Parting Gifts of Empire, his book on Palestine, India, and the intellectual history of decolonization, is forthcoming next year from the University of California Press. Elhalaby has held postdoctoral fellowships at UC Davis and NYU Abu Dhabi.

This event is open to all members of the University of Toronto community. (Please bring your T-cards.)

Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/under-the-rubble-history-and-memory-in-israe…

Sponsors

• Hearing Palestine
• Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
• Department for the Study of Religion
• Department of Historical Studies (UTM)

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Date: November 7
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Invitee: Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Co-sponsors:  TSSP, TMU PCC, and York PSC

Bio:
Francesca Albanese is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, and a Senior Advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), where she co-founded the Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP), a coalition of renowned professional and scholars engaged in/on Israel/Palestine. She has published widely on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine; her latest book, Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive legal analysis of the situation of Palestinian refugees from its origins to modern-day reality. She regularly teaches and lectures on International Law and Forced Displacement in European and Arab universities, and speaks frequently at conferences and public events on the legal situation of Palestine. She worked for a decade as a human rights expert for the United Nations, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees. In these capacities, she advised the UN, governments, and civil society across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia Pacific, on the enforcement of human rights norms, especially for vulnerable groups including refugees and migrants. She holds a Law Degree (with honors) from the University of Pisa and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of London, SOAS.