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Welcome to Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, Postdoctoral Fellow

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The Hearing Palestine Initiative welcomes Dr. Sa’di-Ibraheem to a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, the first of its kind at the University of Toronto, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies. 

Dr. Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, specialises in political geography, with research interests that include indigenous geographies and temporalities, settler colonialism, neoliberal urbanism, and infrastructure, focusing on the Middle East, particularly Palestine. Her main research explores socio-political dimensions of infrastructure in colonial settings— principally telecommunications and playgrounds—as well as neoliberal planning under settler colonialism and the spatial-temporal experiences of indigenous communities.

A selected list of her publications includes:

Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. & Wilkof S. (2025). Cabling and Un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a Theory of Cumulative Infrastructural Injustice. Political Geography.

Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2021). Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(4), 686-704.

Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2021). Indigenous Wanderers in a Fortress Campus: Spatial Experiences of Palestinian Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 20(2), 123-145.

Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2020). Jaffa’s times: Temporalities of dispossession and the advent of natives’ reclaimed time. Time & Society, 29(2), 340-361.

Call for Papers: Hearing Palestine’s Panel in 2022 Conference, “Reassessing the British Mandate in Palestine”

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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.

SUBMIT

Expression of Interest: Programmatic Advisory Board Member

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***Please note that this Expression of Interest is limited to faculty working at the University of Toronto Tri-Campus***

About the Position

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. 

About 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.

Selection Process

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

To apply, please submit an application that contains the following information:

  • First Name, Last Name
  • Title and Position
  • Current Department(s)
  • UofT Campuses appointment(s)
  • Courses taught with a nexus to the study of Palestine
  • Brief description of potential programmatic contribution(s) to Hearing Palestine (max 300 words)

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.

Manuscript Workshop: Palestine Studies – Call for Applications

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***Please note that the call for applications below is limited to scholars working at the University of Toronto***

The Hearing Palestine initiative at the University of Toronto (UofT) calls for applications for a manuscript review workshop series that centers the study of Palestine. Hearing Palestine is an initiative supported by the Department of History, Centre for the Study of the United States, and Institute of Islamic Studies.  In academic contexts, there remains an abiding concern with the “Palestine exception” to Academic Freedom. The University of Toronto is no exception to this phenomenon, and one that works to the detriment of key University policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a constituent feature of academic excellence.   

Hearing Palestine will host two Manuscript Workshops per academic year in order to support ongoing academic excellence and production in the study of Palestine across all relevant disciplines of study. 

Application Requirements 

Applications should include the following: 

  1. Academic CV 
  2. Cover letter introducing the manuscript 
  3. Two draft chapters 
  4. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement (optional) 

Please submit applications by email to palestinestudies@utoronto.ca by Friday, September 17, 2021. 

Eligibility Requirements 

Applications are limited to scholars working at the University of Toronto (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough) with a manuscript that will be completed by the time of the Manuscript Workshop. Workshops will be held in the Fall and Winter Terms.  

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy 

Hearing Palestine embraces the UofT’s 2006 Statement of Equity, Diversity and Excellence. In light of that statement and in the interests of challenging the Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom, preference will be given to those scholars who are precariously employed (pre-tenure, limited term contracts) and center Palestine and Palestinian voices in their manuscript. 

A PDF of this Call for Application can be found here.

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