A genocide in Palestine is unraveling in front of our eyes. This teach-in will provide a feminist framework and people-centered analysis that centers power and Palestinian experiential knowledge. This teach-in will situate what is happening now in Palestine, historicize the current moment, and attend to the disproportionality and selective humanity that has dominated the mainstream. The racialized, anti-Palestinian discursive tropes of mainstream media, which the UC has engaged, has resulted in material losses, including of life both here and abroad. This teach-in will address these themes and hopes to enable a conversation around action in the face of injustice.
Jennifer Mogannam is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and an affiliate of the Center for the Middle East & North Africa at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to UC Santa Cruz, she was a UC President’s postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis and, through the program, was selected as a 2023-24 Mellon Foundation/UC-HSI Humanities Initiative Faculty Fellow. She earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego and her MA in Arab and Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut. Her scholarship is cross-disciplinary – centering oral history, ethnography, archives, and cultural criticism – and broadly examines 20th and 21st century Palestinian and Arab transnational movements and third world solidarities, with an eye for analyzing movement praxis for liberated futures. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees, borders, colonialism and imperialism, global scales of race and indigeneity, and resistance. Her current book project frames and analyzes the coalitional relationship forged between Palestinian and Lebanese revolutionary fronts during Civil War Lebanon.
Date | Time
November 1, 2023 | 12:15 – 1:30 PM [PST]
Free and open to the public
Venue | Location
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz