CPS Annual Lecture: history, Gaza, and the question of genocide
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Gallery
- Room
- SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
Why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Muslim and Christian Palestinian life consistently devalued?
What is the historical narrative that authorizes this devaluation? How much has this narrative changed over the course of the 20th century? And to what extent is the Gaza genocide one of its principal consequences? Ussama Makdisi explores these questions in the CPS's Annual Lecture.
Registration
This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
About the speaker
Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. Professor Makdisi’s published books include Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (University of California Press, 2019) and Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008). The latter won several awards including the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association. Professor Makdisi has also published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, American Historical Review, and in the Middle East Report.
Chair
Nimer Sultany, Chair, Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS.
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