Speakers
Lila Sharif
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently completing a book manuscript that analyzes the intersections between the politics of consumption, indigenous survival, neoliberalism, gender and race in Palestine.
Ayah Hamdan
Student in the SM Epidemiology program at Harvard University and on the Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Health Track. Ayah is interested in the intersection between technology and health and how it can be applied to maternal health in refugee communities.
Sherene Seikaly
Associate Professor of History at UCSB, author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016), co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies, and a co-editor of Jadaliyya.
Noura Erakat
Human rights attorney and Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Noura is a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).
Moderator: Selma Al-Aswad
(She/Her), a Palestinian-American community organizer, ethnographer, and qualitative researcher based in Seattle, and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.