Palestine and Pedagogy at the University:
A one-day conference
Friday, November 06, 2015
9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
UCLA
Attedance is free, but requires an RSVP
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
9:15 –11:00: Panel I
Moderator: Asli Bali, Professor UCLA Law School
- Yaman Salahi, “Academic Freedom in Middle East Studies: Comfort, Balance, and Neutrality in the Classroom.”
- Cheryl Harris, “Pedagogical Challenges of Engaging Palestine.”
Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:30
11:30-1:30: Panel II
Moderator: Sondra Hale, Research Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, UCLA
- Lisa Rofel, “Self-Censorship and Autopedagogy on Palestine”
- Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar, "Between Self-Censorship and Responsibility: Anthropologists Navigate Palestine in the Classroom."
Lunch Break 1:30-2:30
2:30-4:30: Panel III
Moderator: Susan Slyomovics, Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
- David Theo Goldberg, “Histories of Relation, Logics of Domination”
- David Lloyd, “Lawfare and the Elimination of Histories.”
4: 30 - 5:00: Conclusions (Featuring All Panel Participants)
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Lara Deeb,
Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Scripps College
Lara Deeb is the author, with Jessica Winegar, of the forthcoming book Anthropology`s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford). She is also the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi`i Lebanon (Princeton, 2006) and co-author, with Mona Harb, of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi`ite South Beirut (2013).
David Theo Goldberg,
Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
David Theo Goldberg has written extensively on race and racism, among other subjects. His latest book, just out from Polity Press is Are We All Postracial Yet?
Cheryl Harris
, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the UCLA School of Law
Cheryls Harris’s work explores the interconnections between racial theory, civil rights practice, politics and human rights. She is the author of “Whiteness as Property” (Harvard Law Review) and “Whitewashing Race” (California Law Review) among others. She has lectured widely on issues of race and equality at leading institutions in the US, Europe, South Africa and Australia.
David Lloyd,
Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
David Lloyd is a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He has published numerous articles on Palestine and Israel, including “Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Israel/Palestine” in The Journal of Settler Colonial Studies; “It Is Our Belief That Palestine is a Feminist Issue...” in Critical Legal Thinking, http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/05/13/belief-palestine-feminist-issue/; and, with Malini Johar Schueller, an essay on the rationale for the academic boycott of Israel in the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. Lloyd works primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. His most recent book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Lisa Rofel
, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lisa Rofel specializes in feminist anthropology and gender studies, transnational capitalism and sexuality/desire. Her publications include Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture and Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism
Yaman Salahi
, Staff attorney at the National Security and Civil Rights Program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice: the Asian Law Caucus
Yaman Salahi’s work is focused on advancing the civil rights and liberties of persons affected by post-9/11 federal and local government policies and practices, particularly Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities. He was previously an Arthur Liman Fellow at the ACLU of Southern California where he worked on litigation relation to post-9/11 surveillance programs at the local and federal level. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School.
Jessica Winegar,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Jessica Winegar is the author, with Lara Deeb, of the forthcoming book Anthropology`s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford). She also writes on arts and cultural production in the Middle East, including the book Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford, 2006).