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Symposium / Conference

The Struggle for Palestine and the Architectures of Settler Colonialism

17 May 2024 - 18 May 2024

Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London

Palestine Symposium -

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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

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19:00-19:15 Opening Remarks

19:15-21:00 Dana Erekat (online) & Eyal Weizman

18 May 2024: Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle

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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

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Symposium / Conference

The Struggle for Palestine and the Architectures of Settler Colonialism

17 May 2024 - 18 May 2024

Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London

Palestine Symposium -

More info

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

Register to join online

19:00-19:15 Opening Remarks

19:15-21:00 Dana Erekat (online) & Eyal Weizman

18 May 2024: Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle

Register to join online

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