[Liuhum] 15 May: Palestine seminar at LiU & film screenings in town

[João Florêncio]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m drawing your attention to the following afternoon seminar and evening film screenings happening on the 15th of May:


TEMA G HIGHER SEMINAR
“PLESTINE, GENDER, DECOLONISATION”

15 May 2024, 13:15–15:00
Linköpings Universitet, Campus Valla, KY26 & Zoom
(Register to attend via zoom here<https://liu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YrceihqDgvE9IbwaPX2uKhTn9FcPLI3qMQ>)


Dr Katie Natanel (University of Exeter)
“Toward a Decolonial Feminist Ecology: From Palestine to a Planetary Horizon”

This talk begins with the premise that increasing access to the land and facilitating encounters with the natural world must be part of our scholarly practice. Drawing on experiences of walking with students both within and beyond university borders, I explore how embodied ecological practices might stretch the space/time of teaching and learning in Higher Education – nourishing political organising and (re-)orienting students and teachers toward justice and solidarity.

Inspired by Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks (2008) and grounded in Devon, southwest England, I trace how movement through local woods, lanes and fields enables us to follow landlines that connect struggles and communities. Our journey begins with a walk designed to provide a break from the weight of study, yet unexpected ruptures open new modes of knowledge sharing, relating to the land, and working toward decolonisation. Step by step, our landlines connect settler colonialism in Palestinewith the present-day coloniality of Britain, and awaken us to the ethical and political bonds that entangle life on a planetary level. Moving, breathing and sensing make visible an emergent ecology that seeks not “balance,” but interdependency, care and accountability as the basis of our shared future.


Hamza Albakri (University of Exeter)
“Stateless Masculinities in the Occupied West Bank: Violence, Resilience, and Resistance”

This talk will focus on exploring the pathways through which colonised and stateless Palestinian youth construct, negotiate, challenge and perform their masculine identities within multiple interlocking layers of fragmentation, power, and control.

Shedding light on the post-Oslo Accords (1993) period, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the theatrics of state-crafting, and the amplification of the Israeli occupation and apartheid, I trace how the relationship between colonial geopolitical space(s) and temporalities, local authoritarianism, and everydayness shape gender performances among young Palestinians. Through using collaborative and creative methods (i.e. applied theatre), I aim to break with essentialism, binarism and hegemony of Western theories when working with and for Palestinian masculinities, exploring not only the complexity of oppression and violence surrounding their lives but also the emancipatory spaces and futurity/ies they forge for themselves on a daily basis.


Katie Natanel is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. She is the author of Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine (University of California Press) and the Executive Editor for Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). She also coordinates the Black Atlantic Innovation Network (BAIN) with Radical Ecology and UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.

Hamza Albakri is a PhD candidate in Palestinestudies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is a social and political activist who works with theatre and music with Palestinian communities to achieve political and social change. He is a board member of the Al-Mada Association for Social Change through Creative Arts and co-founder of the Laween Theatre Initiative for Social Expression in Palestine.


PALESTINE CAFE
PALESTINIAN SHORT FILMS & DISCUSSION

15 May 2024, 20:00–22:00
Kollektivhuset Stolplyckan
Föreningsgatan 37, Linköping
Free Entrance

Following the afternoon seminar at LiU, there will be a Palestine Cafe organised by LiU students to commemorate Nakba Day. This will include screenings of the short sci-fi artist films A Space Exodus (2008) and In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2015) by Larissa Sansour, Palestinian artist and 2019 Danish representative at the Venice Biennale. The screenings will be followed by an open discussion.



Best wishes,

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João Florêncio
Professor of Gender Studies | Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures
Honorary Professor in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
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