Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Project
 

Students Rising:

Battling Exploitation, Imagining Futures

A Converstation with Students & Faculty on the Front Lines
Part 3

Featuring:

UCSC, UNC Chapel Hill, GW/GMU, NYC Universities, UCLA, + more

Moderators:
Bassam Haddad
Jairo Funez
Muriam Haleh Davis

Friday, 17 May 2024
1:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM Palestine 

Student protests against Israel’s Genocide in Gaza have engulfed campuses across the United States recently. As the Spring semester unwinds, new/old forms of protests emerge/resurface. On May 15, the UAW 4811, representing 48,000 academic workers across the UC system, ended a strike authorization vote in solidarity with pro-Palestinian protests. We host a number of students and facuty to share how they are keeping Gaza and its reverberations abroad centered through such actions as well as the ramifications of resilient encampments.

Gaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series

We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza endures a massive invasion of potentially genocidal proportions. This follows an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. The context within which this takes place includes a well-coordinated campaign of misinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essentialist and reductionist discursive tropes that dehumanize Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, now a matter of consensus in the human rights movement.

The co-organizers below are convening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of issues that introduce our common university communities, educators, researchers, and students to the history and present of Gaza, in context. 

Co-Organizers: Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Birzeit University Museum, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Theory, Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY’s Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, University of Illinois Chicago’s Arab american cultural Center, George Mason University’s AbuSulayman’s Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago’s Critical Middle East Studies Working Group, George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies, Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies