Event Announcement: Food Security and Palestinian Liberatory Ecologies

 

Join a conversation between Laila el-Haddad and Michael Fakhri. Leila el-Haddad is a renowned journalist and writer and co-author of critically acclaimed The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey (2013). She brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge about Palestinian foodways and their relation to cultural resistance. Dr. Michael Fakhri is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He recently authored a 2024 UN report “Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty.” Fakhri and El-Haddad will discuss the report and their respective research regarding Palestinian food, politics, and cultural resistance.

 

This is the keynote presentation of the "Palestinian Landscapes & Liberatory Ecologies" Autumn School. This keynote is free and open to the public. 

 

This event is organized by The Political Ecology Research Group—Palestine and DOPE+Palestine (Dimensions of Political Ecology) with the support of the Antipode Foundation Right to the Discipline Grant and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE).