Date: Friday, August 7

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 011: On Palestine
Room: Ambassador II

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College

Presiders: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College
hephzibah v. strmic-pawl, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Discussant: hephzibah v. strmic-pawl, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Description: 

This panel examines the history and contemporary dynamics of colonialism in Palestine and the broader Southwest Asia and North Africa region. Drawing on theoretical frameworks ranging from bare life to necropolitics, presenters analyze how colonial technologies converge to produce spatial and representational displacement of Palestinians. Amid ongoing violence and global political debate over rights to defense, sovereignty, and resistance, the session engages critical inquiry into these urgent questions. It also explores the rise of grassroots solidarity movements in the face of state-level denial and repression, asking whether a postcolonial future is possible and what pathways forward might look like.

Panelists:

Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette University

Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California

Zahra Ali, Rutgers University

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