New Approaches to Palestinian History

The Harvard History Department and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a symposium

"New Approaches to Palestinian History"

Registration required: register here (limited to the Harvard community).

10:00am-11:15am, Keynote address
Beshara Doumani, Brown University, “The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History”
MODERATOR: Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University

11:30am-1:00pm PANEL 1: CULTURE LAW AND SOCIETY
Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto: “A Gaza Demonology: Hilmi Abu Shaban in Colonial Palestine”
Maha Nassar, University of Arizona: “Spheres of Sumud: Historicizing Palestinian Conceptions of Steadfastness”
Omar Abdel-Ghaffar, Harvard University: “Formulating Process in Medieval Palestine”
MODERATOR: Lorenzo Bondioli, Harvard University

1:00-2:15pm LUNCH (lunch provided)

2:15pm-3:45pm, PANEL 2: LAND, DISPOSESSION, SOCIETY
Kristen Alff, North Carolina State University: “Violent Interests: Agricultural Corporations and Palestinian Resistance, 1850-1920”
Sahar Bostock, Columbia University: “Desert Developmentalism: Infrastructure, Agriculture, and the Colonization of Southern Palestine”
MODERATOR: Philip Deloria, Harvard University

Contact: mcicerano@fas.harvard.edu