This two-day symposium will attempt to reconcile past, present and future dimensions of the Zionist project and its fraternal political-economic frameworks crystallised in the Palestine question. We propose to read some of the spatial, legal, psychic and cultural dimensions of Zionist settler colonialism, and the struggle against it, inside and outside Palestine as the site of persistent anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggle – what we are calling ‘the architectures of settler colonialism’.
The symposium will present Forensic Architecture’s recent investigation into the meticulous use of urban space and of planning practices as modalities of dispossession and ‘humanitarian’ violence, both historically and in the present genocidal war on Gaza. It will also include a talk on the reappraisal and critique of liberal appeals to international law as a framework for liberatory movements and struggles. A panel on psychoanalysis will pose the question of mourning for the Palestinian subject in relation to a dual melancholy, both as an attachment to a lost object and an insurrectionary melancholy; as well as discussing social hell as a modality, or allegory of late capitalism in view of its televised genocides and images of destitution, and where these are seen from. And finally, discussions will revolve around culture as a site of struggle that include BDS, the contradictions of memory and erasure in the German staatraison, and the new wave of Euro-American anti-anti-semitism as imperial trope and tool.
17 May 2024: Architectures of Occupation
19:00-19:15 Opening Remarks
19:15-21:00 Dana Erekat (online) & Eyal Weizman
18 May 2024: Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle
10:30-10:45 Welcome Remarks
10:45-11:30 Sai Englert
11:30-12:15 Rob Knox
14:00-16:00 Nadia Bou Ali & Abboud Hamayel, moderator Anthony Faramelli
16:00-16:45 Samir Eskanda
17:00-18:30 Sultan Doughan & Barnaby Raine
Closing Remarks
Organised by Ghalya Saadawi, Manca Bajec, Adnan Madani
This two-day symposium will attempt to reconcile past, present and future dimensions of the Zionist project and its fraternal political-economic frameworks crystallised in the Palestine question. We propose to read some of the spatial, legal, psychic and cultural dimensions of Zionist settler colonialism, and the struggle against it, inside and outside Palestine as the site of persistent anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggle – what we are calling ‘the architectures of settler colonialism’.
The symposium will present Forensic Architecture’s recent investigation into the meticulous use of urban space and of planning practices as modalities of dispossession and ‘humanitarian’ violence, both historically and in the present genocidal war on Gaza. It will also include a talk on the reappraisal and critique of liberal appeals to international law as a framework for liberatory movements and struggles. A panel on psychoanalysis will pose the question of mourning for the Palestinian subject in relation to a dual melancholy, both as an attachment to a lost object and an insurrectionary melancholy; as well as discussing social hell as a modality, or allegory of late capitalism in view of its televised genocides and images of destitution, and where these are seen from. And finally, discussions will revolve around culture as a site of struggle that include BDS, the contradictions of memory and erasure in the German staatraison, and the new wave of Euro-American anti-anti-semitism as imperial trope and tool.
17 May 2024: Architectures of Occupation
19:00-19:15 Opening Remarks
19:15-21:00 Dana Erekat (online) & Eyal Weizman
18 May 2024: Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle
10:30-10:45 Welcome Remarks
10:45-11:30 Sai Englert
11:30-12:15 Rob Knox
14:00-16:00 Nadia Bou Ali & Abboud Hamayel, moderator Anthony Faramelli
16:00-16:45 Samir Eskanda
17:00-18:30 Sultan Doughan & Barnaby Raine
Closing Remarks
Organised by Ghalya Saadawi, Manca Bajec, Adnan Madani