Palestine Studies at University of Toronto
Tuesday, November 15 2022, 4:00PM – 6:00PM.
Event Overview:
Dr. Chandni Desai hosts Dr. Uri Davis for an event organized for her course, CSE445: Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity. Davis presented a lecture on his book, The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit with Ethnic Cleansing.
Monday, November 7 2022, 6:00PM.
Event Overview:
The Hearing Palestine Initiative, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, and Human Rights Watch Canada held the ACLA Annual Soiree in November hosting Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel/Palestine director and author of HRW’s Israeli Apartheid report.
Event Overview:
The Institute for Palestine Studies held a conference at Birzeit University on the political history and implications of the British Mandate. The conference was co-sponsored by all the Centers for Palestine Studies, including Hearing Palestine, and there were panels organized by the co-founders, Dr. Alejandro Paz and Jens Hanssen.
Thursday, October 27 2022, 6:00PM – 8:00PM.
Event Overview:
Censure UofT hosted Dr. Nadia Abu El-Haj for their Inaugural Annual Lecture on “Facts, Speech, and Censorship: A View from the Question of Palestine.” Dr. Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia.
Wednesday, October 12 2022, 12PM.
Event Overview:
Independent Jewish Voices launched their report on the suppression of speech on Palestine in Canada in October. Dr. Alejandro Paz, co-founder of the Hearing Palestine Initiative, chaired the event which featured Saree Makdisi, Anna-Esther Younes, Alex Neve, Sheryl Nestel, and Rowan Gaudet as speakers.