Zainab Yusofi

Please be sure to register for this very timely lecture at the link below. This in-person event will sell out!

“Threats to Academic Freedom from Without and Within: Sources and Solutions”

KENNETH ROTH

November 16, 2023 | 6-8pm | 

Moot Court (250), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 

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Sponsored by: CAUT; The List; Anthropology, St. George; Anthropology, UTM; WGSI; Social Justice Education, OISE; Centre for the Study of the United States; Hearing Palestine; Institute of Islamic Studies; Jewish Faculty Network; Palestine Forum; Centre for Culture and Technology; Department of Geography and Planning, Scholar Strike Canada; Faculty4Palestine; Arts and Science Students Union; UTFA; Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies; History; CUPE 3902

As the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Palestine has become extremely dire amidst the ongoing Israeli assault, Hearing Palestine is holding an emergency teach-in event on Palestine. 

Date: Wednesday, October 18th

Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

This event will feature contributions from distinguished human rights experts, activists, and scholars, focusing on topics related to Palestine, global settler colonialism, and internationalism.

Speakers:

• Michael Lynk
  Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories & Law Professor
• Dr. Tarek Loubani
  Emergency Room Physician who served at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza and runs the Glia Project
• Dr. Esmat Elhalaby
  Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto
• Dr. Chandni Desai
  Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto
• Dr. Uahikea Maile
  Assistant Professor of Indigenous Politics, University of Toronto
• Kimalee Philip
  Organizer with Caribbean Solidarity Network
• Sarrah Malek
  Palestinian writer and spoken word poet

Register for the Zoom link here.

Explore how Visualizing Palestine uses data and research to create powerful visuals that shift the narrative on Palestine.

Join us for a discussion with Visualizing Palestine’s executive director Aline Batarseh and board member Dr. Lena El-Malak for an introduction to Visualizing Palestine’s work on using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences in order to provoke narrative change.

Date: Monday, October 2, 2023

Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m

Door Opens: 6:30 p.m

Location: Universtiy of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Room 246, 19 Ursula Franklin St.

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Come learn about creative ways you can utilize well researched visuals to raise awareness on the root causes of injustice in Palestine, from the ongoing Nakba, to settler colonialism, to apartheid, to the silencing of speech, to collective action against Israeli oppression.

We look forward to seeing you and your friends at this public event. The discussion will be dynamic, and we’ll enjoy some light snacks together.

This event is hosted by the Hearing Palestine Initiative and Health Workers Alliance for Palestine at the University of Toronto.

The Department of Sociology, Hearing Palestine, and The Palestine Forum are pleased to host Areej Sabbagh-Khoury of the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of “Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba”

Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests lie in political and historical sociologies, colonialism, indigenous studies, memory, and critical social theory. She is the author of Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023), the first empirical study that carefully traces the process of the dispossession and displacement of rural Palestinians by kibbutz settlers in Northern Palestine’s Jezreel Valley before, during, and after 1948. Based on research in eight archives, Colonizing Palestine also examines the representation of colonial violence in “leftist socialist” kibbutz discourse. She has published widely on settler colonialism, political sociology, and the Palestinian citizens in Israel in journals including Sociological Theory, Politics and Society, Theory and Society, Current Sociology, and The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, among others. She is the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships from foundations like the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, Palestinian American Research Center, Fulbright, and the Council for Higher Education. Sabbagh-Khoury is a member of the General Assembly and Academic Research Committee of Mada al-Carmel—Arab Center for Applied Social Studies. She received her doctorate in sociology from Tel Aviv University and subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at Columbia, New York, Brown, and Tufts Universities.