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The ELSC Director Giovanni Fassina will join a great panel of scholars, researchers and representatives of NGOs at a webinar organised by The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) on “Teaching Palestine in the Present”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Time: 16:00-18:00 (BST)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Location:\u00a0Online via Zoom<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register here to attend<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

R\u00e9gis Debray has spoken, in a famous paragraph, of the constant difficulty of being contemporary with our present. In Europe at least, we have yet to be sufficiently contemporary with our past.<\/p>(Perry Anderson, Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, 1976, p. 78)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Who writes Palestinian history, in the present, and down\u00a0to\u00a0the present? How is it written and practiced, in and outside Europe, and what for? How has what the Italian revolutionary and intellectual Antonio Gramsci called the \u2018war of position\u2019 (an organizational and cultural struggle in the \u2018fortresses\u2019 of civil society) been fought from above and below in schools and universities? What are the stakes of the struggle? Who is involved? This panel addresses these questions by examining factors such as the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, transnational Palestinian solidarity, university politics, the firing of academics, publishing, education, academic freedom, pro-Israeli groups and individuals, state power, and Zionism. We will aim\u00a0to\u00a0open up a wide-ranging discussion of how the \u2018integral politics\u2019 of Palestinian history are playing out amid contested forms of hegemony in the present, while considering how those in Middle East Studies can best intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Teodora Todorova<\/strong> (Teaching Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick \/ Chair, BRISMES Committee on Outreach and Pedagogy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Yara Hawari<\/strong> (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  • Mai Abu Moghli<\/strong> (Senior Researcher and a Co-Principle Investigator on an Education in Emergencies Programme at the Centre for Lebanese Studies)<\/li>
  • Tamara Ben-Halim<\/strong> (Co-Director and Founder of MAKAN)<\/li>
  • Nicola Pratt <\/strong>(Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick \/ BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom)<\/li>
  • Giovanni Fassina<\/strong> (Programme Director, European Legal Support Centre – ELSC)<\/li>
  • Martin Kone\u010dn\u00fd<\/strong> (Director, European Middle East Project – EuMEP)\u00a0<\/li>
  • John Chalcraft <\/strong>(Professor of Middle East History and Politics, London School of Economics \/ BRISMES Secretary \/ Director of BRISMES Campaigns).\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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