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September 30, 2009
Conference - Palestine: What We Know
The GWU Institute for Middle East Studies & Palestinian American Research Center present
Palestine: What We Know
Friday, October 16, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons
Suite 602, 1957 E St, NW
Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
**Registration required**
This conference, featuring a special talk by Rashid Khalidi, will be a multi-disciplinary survey of the state of scholarship on Palestine. It will discuss what we know, what we don’t know, and what obstacles we need to overcome in order to advance the field of Palestinian Studies.
9:30 - 11:30
- Palestinian Politics and Economics: What Can Scholars Know?
- Chairs/Organizers
- Nathan Brown, George Washington University
- Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland-College Park
- Speakers
- Mouin Rabbani, Editor, Middle East Report: The Palestinian Political System in the 21st Century: A Research Agenda
- Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts - Boston: The Meaning of Palestinian Economic Development
- Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University: Political Science and Palestine, Between Politics and Science
11:30 - 11:50
- Coffee Break
11:50 - 1:20
- Palestine through an Interdisciplinary Lens: Anthropology, Gender, and Conflict Studies
- Chair/Organizer: Julie Peteet, Louisville University
- Speakers
- Ilana Feldman, George Washington University: Displaced States: Themes in the Anthropology of Palestine
- Julie Norman, Concordia University: Creative Activism: Popular Resistance in Palestine
- Isis Nusair, Denison University: Retelling the Past/Reconstructing the Present: Gendering the Narratives of Four Generations of Palestinian Women in Israel
1:20 - 2:05
- Lunch
2:05 - 3:35
- Palestinian History: Sources, Concepts, and Methods
- Chair: Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University
- Organizer: Shira Robinson, George Washington University
- Speakers
- Shira Robinson, George Washington University: Citizenship, Sovereignty and its Absences after 1948 and 1967
- Michelle Campos, University of Florida: Ottoman Palestine into the 21st Century
- Awad Halabi, Wright State University: Palestine’s Arab Community under British Rule: Prospects for Future Research
3:35 - 4:00
- Break
4:00 - 5:00
- Keynote Address: The State of Palestinian Studies
- Speaker: Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
5:00-6:30
Reception hosted by PARC
**Special thanks to Omar Kader for sponsoring the reception
To RSVP for the conference, Khalidi lecture, and reception, please email rsvpimes@gwu.edu with “Full Day RSVP” in the subject line.
To RSVP for the Khalidi lecture and reception ONLY, please email rsvpimes@gwu.edu with “Khalidi Lecture RSVP” in the subject line.
Posted by kpfister at September 30, 2009 04:32 PM
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