Contesting Power: Israel/ Palestine after the last war - Students' Union Current Affairs Lecture Series

Students' Union Current Affairs Lecture Series in collaboration with the Palestine Society

 

Please register free here (buy a free ticket) - http://soasunion.org/ents/event/195/ -  registration is only open to SOAS students/ staff and their guests. (max 4) 

 

Following the talk on ISIS, the SOAS SU Lecture Series is continuing on the subject of the Middle East, this time the lecture will focus on Palestine/ Israel conflict following the horrors of 'Operation Protective Edge'. The panelists are extremely well versed on the topic. 

 

Speaker's Titles:

 

Eyal Sivan: Conscripted Culture: Arts and Academia in Israel

 

Rafeef Ziadah: Boycotting Israel: charting a way forward

 

Nimer Sultany: Between Lawfare and Warfare: Speaking Law to Power?

 

Speaker Bios:

 

Eyal Sivan is an Israeli filmmaker and publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, . - http://www.eyalsivan.info/index.php?p=bio#&panel1-4

 

Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian performance poet and human rights activist based in London. Her performances of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ - http://www.rafeefziadah.net

 

Nimer Sultany is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a professor of law at SOAS. His research concerns Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law. https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff86825.php