#  New Approaches to Palestinian History 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 11, 2025** 

 10:00AM - 03:45PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Sever Hall, Rm 113**  

 [25 Harvard Yard  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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

**"New Approaches to Palestinian History"**

Registration required: [register here](https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_01w52gPnriVOE7A) (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>



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Conference/Workshop ](/eventseries/conferences)
- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Israel ](/research-region/israel)
- [ Palestinian Territories ](/research-region/palestinian-territories)
- [ 2024-25 ](/academic-year/2024-25)
 
 

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