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Oct 16, 2020 Turkey
Off-University Online Course Listing

Off-University Online Course Listing

By : Jadaliyya Reports

Off-University’s winter term is only a few weeks away! Starting from 13th October, we will offer eight brand new online courses in the fields of political economy, law, gender studies, sociology and others. As always, participation is free of charge and open to all. Registration for all courses is now open. To get a more detailed overview of this term’s programme please scroll down.  

Off-University’de yeni akademik dönemin başlamasına sadece birkaç hafta kaldı! 13 Ekim'den itibaren, politik ekonomi, hukuk, cinsiyet çalışmaları, sosyoloji gibi alanlarda sekiz yepyeni çevrimiçi ders sunacağız. Her zaman olduğu gibi, bu derslere katılım ücretsiz ve herkese açık olacak. Tüm derslerimize kayıtlar başladı. Bu dönemki programda yer alacak derslere dair detaylar için lütfen aşağı kaydırın. 

Das neue Wintersemester bei Off-University ist nur noch ein paar Wochen entfernt! Beginnend am 13.Oktober, bieten wir acht brandneue Onlinekurse unter anderem in den Disziplinen der Politischen Ökonomie, Recht, Geschlechterstudien, sowie Soziologie an. Wie immer ist die Teilnahme kostenlos und offen für alle. Die Anmeldung für alle Kurse ist nun geöffnet. Für einen detaillierten Überblick des diesjährigen Angebots, Scrollen Sie bitte nach unten.

1. The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Rentier States 

Organized in cooperation with the New University in Exile Consortium, Dr. Leila Alieva and Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu’s course will address the major effects of ‘rentier economies’ and natural resources on democracy and state building. It will also explore the role of natural resources in conflicts, including interstate wars, as well as the notion of the ‘resource curse’. Both scholars have a broad professional and academic background in political economy and have been based in various universities, research centres and international organizations in Azerbaijan and around the world. To learn more about the course and our faculty, please click here.

The course will start on 13th October and will take place online every Tuesday 3 pm - 5 pm CET. Please register here. 


2. Academic Freedom in the MENA Region

Since the Arab Spring began in early 2010s, countless academics in the Middle East and North Africa (the MENA region) have been fired from their faculty positions in direct response to the ideas expressed in their writing or teaching. In their course “Academic Freedom in the MENA Region”, Dr. Nahed Ghazzoul, Dr. Mabruk Derbesh and Dr. Teoman Aktan depart from this condition to introduce participants to the general concept of Academic Freedom and its specific meaning in different geographical contexts. This course is conducted in English. 

It is a cooperation among Off-University, New University in Exile Consortium, and Bremen University. It will start on November 4th and take place every Wednesday from 6- 8pm (CET). Please click here to register. 


3. Media and Discrimination 

In her course, Prof. Ülkü Doğanay will lay out the role of the media in reproducing and spreading discourses of discrimination against refugees, ethnic and religious minorities, women and LGBTIQ+. She concentrates on the analysis of cases from Turkish, European and US media and includes exercises that help the participants learn to identify and analyse discriminatory discourse in the media. It will be conducted in English. 

The online course is hosted by the Institute for Sociology at Potsdam University. It starts in the first week of November and continues for 14 weeks. For registration, please click here.


4. Marx's Materialism: Praxis and Emancipation  

Dr. Siyaves Azeri and Dr. Saladdin Ahmed’s course aims to introduce the distinctive features and revolutionary essence of Marx’s materialism by analysing primary texts. While Marx’s concepts of “praxis” as a philosophical category, “practical criticism,” and “practical materialism” will be at the core of discussions in the seminar, they will also draw from today’s social and political struggles for human emancipation in different parts of the world. The online course is hosted by the department for Philosophy at Freie University Berlin and the New University in Exile Consortium at the New School for Social Research. The seminar is conducted in English. 

It is organized by the Transatlantic Academic Freedom Network Network built up in the framework of the Berlin University Alliance. The online course starts on November 4th and continues Wednesdays between 18:15-19:45 (CET). Please register here.


5. Gender, Religion and Power 

Taking feminist and interdisciplinary approaches, this course examines the gendered dimensions of religion, religiosity, and secularisation with a particular focus on the experiences of those on the margins. Using case studies alongside theoretical frameworks such as feminist theology, the course will provide students with a platform to engage with the multiple ways in which religious women locate their religiosity and negotiate their agency. This course is conducted in English. 

The course is convened by Viktoria Lavriniuk who is co-hosted by Humboldt University Berlin. It is funded by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and will take place from November 9th  - February 22nd and the days of classes are to be announced soon. To register, please click here. 


6. Türkiye'de Toplumsal Cinsiyet 

Emine Sevim'in moderatörlüğünde gerçekleştirilecek olan bu ders, Aramızda - Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmalar Derneği bünyesindeki 13 eğitmenden oluşan bir kolektif tarafından verilecek. Derste, toplumsal cinsiyet ve toplum mevzularına dair sorular, eleştirel bir bakış açısıyla ele alınacak. Bilhassa Türkiye’ye odaklanacak olan bu derste, kesişimsellikten LGBTIQ+ / cinsiyet hakları temelli aktivizme, eğitimden özel-kamusal alan ayrımına, geniş bir konu skalasına yer verilecek. Bu ders Türkçe olarak yürütülecek. Rosa Luxemburg Vakfı tarafından finanse edilen bu çevrimiçi ders, Frankfurt Oder'de bulunan Europa Universität Viadrina ile işbirliği kapsamında  sunuluyor.

2 Kasım tarihinde başlayacak ve Pazartesi günleri (TSİ) 14:00 - 15:30 saatleri arasında gerçekleşecek olan bu derse kaydolmak için lütfen buraya tıklayın.


7. Fundamentals of Scriptwriting 

The main objective of this hands-on course by Gülengül Altıntaş is to provide general knowledge on cinematic storytelling. As a graduate in cinema studies from Istanbul University and Bilgi University Istanbul, Altıntaş worked as an assistant director in several productions for TV and film. Participants of this course will develop skills in reading films and producing their own short film scripts throughout the semester. Being a film lover and longing to write is the only pre-requisite for the course. The course language is English. 

The course is hosted by the Institute for Theatre Studies at LMU Munich and funded by Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation. It starts on November 3rd and takes place every Tuesday from 11.30 - 13.30 (CET) and 13.30 - 15.30 (Turkey). To register, please click here.


8. Türkiye'de Anayasal Devlet  

Münih LMU - Yakın ve Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Enstitüsü işbirliği ile düzenlenen “Türkiye'de Anayasal Devlet" dersi, Gökhan Şen, Barış Işık ve Melike Belkıs Aydın tarafından verilecek. Otoriter rejimlerde referandumların manipülatif kullanımına değinecek olan bu derste, “otoriter referandumlar” teriminin anlamı üzerinde durulacak. Türkçe olarak yürütülecek olan bu ders, temelde Türkiye’ye odaklanacak, ancak derste ele alınacak konular karşılaştırmalı bir bakış açısıyla başka ülkelerin siyasi sistemleriyle de ilişkilendirilecek. 

2 Kasım 2020'de başlayacak olan bu ders, pazartesi günleri (TSİ) 18.30 - 20.00 saatleri arasında yapılacak. Rosa Luxemburg Vakfı tarafından finanse edilen bu derse kaydolmak için lütfen buraya tıklayın.

[For more resoruces, visit The Solidarity Academies.]

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 

[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412