Prof. Dr. Ussama Makdisi (University of California Berkeley)
Date: 08/05/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium G, Technicum blok 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
Dr. Shir Hever studies the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. He is the manager of the Alliance for Justice between Israelis an Palestinians (BIP), and the military embargo coordinator for the Boycott National committee (BDS)
Date: 25/04/2025
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Venue: Auditorium C – “Hein Picard” Campus Tweekerken, Hoveniersberg 24, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
Prof Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Refqa Abu-Remaileh is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As Principal Investigator, she led the European Research Council project PalREAD (2018–2023). She is author of Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford University Press, 2023) and creator of the Arabic-language podcast Balad min Kalam: Conversations on Palestinian Literature available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20thcentury, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sitting at the intersection of literary history, periodical studies, and digital humanities, Country of Words creates a digitally networked and multilocational literary history—a literary atlas enhanced. The virtual realm acts as the meeting place for the data and narrative fragments of this literature-in-motion, bringing together porous, interrupted, disconnected, and discontinuous fragments into an elastic, interconnected, and entangled literary history.
Date: 24/04/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium G, Technicum blok 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
Professor Dr. Noura Erakat
Guest lecture organised by our colleagues from Conflict and Development Studies
Palestine Talks Spring 2025Prof. Dr. Amos Goldberg
lecture organised together with our colleagues from Conflict and Development Studies
Professor Amos Goldberg’s work on Holocaust historiography, trauma, and memory studies has been highly influential, and this visit presents a great opportunity for engaging discussions. He will share insights from his research, followed by an open discussion.
Date: 03/03/2025
Time: 4pm to 5.45 pm
Venue: Auditorium D, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
Prof. Dr. Amos Goldberg
Together with our colleagues from Conflict and Development Studies, we are organising a roundtable discussion on “History, Politics, and the Genocide in Gaza”
Date: 03/03/2025
Time: 1pm to 2.30pm
Venue: Faculty Board Meeting Room, Technicum, 3rd Floor).
Registration link: https://event.ugent.be/registration/conversationamosgoldberg
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@Ugent.be
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Islah Jad (Birzeit University)
Date: 12/11/2024
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Auditorium C, Technicum, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Issam Nassar, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, talks about the role of photography in narrating the history of Palestine.
Date: 29/10/2024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium G, Technicum, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be
In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Wesam Amer (Gaza University) talks about Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure in 2023-24.
Date: 1/10/2024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium G, Technicum, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
The Arabic and Islamic Studies section at Ghent University invites you to its second academic event discussing the genocide in Gaza as well as the ongoing escalation of violence in Palestine and the wider region. The event will commence on 24 April 2024 with the screening of the documentary film Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory (2016) by Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi. The film offers a critical exploration of themes such as resistance, agency and Palestinian self-representation in historical and contemporary contexts that remain deeply relevant today.
On 30 April, a panel discussion will take place, bringing together distinguished scholars from multiple disciplines with a range of expertise to discuss a number of key issues, including violiations of international law, violent and non-violent resistance, individual and collective agency and solidarity, and the prospects for a sustainable and just peace in the region.
Both parts of the event are open to all students, faculty members and anyone interested from the public. We look forward to on open, informed and thoughtful conversation.
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be