Friday, April 13, 2018
8:00am - 5:00pm
Elliott School of International Affairs
Lindner Family Commons Room 602
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel and of the Nakba, the dispossession and displacement of the Palestinian people that was part of this establishment. Our conferencetakes the occasion of the anniversary to reflect on the continuing effects of this experience. Panels will explore new directions in scholarship on 1948, the multiplicity of ways that Palestinians and Israelis remember and reckon with these events, and ongoing resonances of the Nakba in people’s lives today.
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IMES Annual Conference 2018 - Nakba: Past and Present
Friday, April 13, 2018
Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Commons, Room 602
Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00: Light Breakfast
9:00-10:30: Keynote Address - Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara
How I Met My Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History
10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
10:45-12:15: PANEL 1: New Directions in Scholarship on 1948
Chair: Shira Robinson, George Washington University
Shay Hazkani, UMD
Different Kinds of Return: Nakba and Independence through Personal Letters
Sreemati Mitter, Brown University
The Missing Municipality Cheque, and Other Stories From 1948: A Financial History of the Nakba
Leena Dallasheh, Humboldt State University
Despite the Nakba: Palestinian Nazareth in Israel
12:15-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:45: Panel 2: Forms of Reckoning With The Nakba
Chair: Arie Dubnov, George Washington University
Diana Allan, McGill University
What Bodies Remember: Affective Histories in the Nakba Archive
Michal Ran-Rubin, University of Chicago
Nakba and the Politics of Digital Witnessing: Coding the Geography of the Nakba in Cyberspace
Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent
Nakba, Novel, Habiby
Hannan Hever, Yale University
From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction
2:45-3:00: Coffee Break
3:00-4:30:Panel 3: Resonances of the Nakba Today
Chair: Ilana Feldman, George Washington University
Emily McKee, Northern Illinois University
Beyond Recognition: Cultural Politics of Land Rights in the Naqab
Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
Permission to Converse: Barriers to an Exchange Between Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank
Anja Kublitz, Aarlborg University
The Rhythm of Nakba: Recursive Catastrophes among Palestinians in Denmark
