BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:483@palestinecampaign.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131007 DTSTAMP:20130815T145030Z URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/soas-conference-self-critique-two -decades-after-oslo/ SUMMARY:SOAS Conference: Self-Critique Two Decades After Oslo DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nOn 5-6 October 2013\, the Palestine Society at the S chool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its ninth annual conference\, Self-Critique Two Decades After Oslo.\nhttp://soaspal soc.org/conference/\n\nConference Programme\n\n\n\nDAY ONE | Saturday 5th October 2013\n\n\n \;\n \;\n\n\n9.00-9.30\nRegistration and Refres hments\n\n\n9.30-9.35\nOpening remarks – Director\, Centre for Palestin e Studies\, SOAS\n\n\n9.35-10.15\nKeynote Address – Overcoming Oslo\, R estoring Popular Sovereignty – Karma Nabulsi\, University of Oxford\n\n \n10.15-11.45\nSession 1: Situating Palestine\n\n \;\n\n1. Unsettling Exceptionalism: Bringing a Race\, Class and Gender Perspective to Palesti ne – Nahla Abdo\, Carleton University\n2. The Continuity of Colonial Co ntrol Mechanisms in Palestine – Laleh Khalili\, School of Oriental and African Studies\, London\n3. Oslo and the Taming of National Liberation St ruggles in the Arab World - Gilbert Achcar\, School of Oriental and Afric an Studies\, London\n\n\n11.45-12.00\nCoffee\, Tea and Refreshments\n\n\n1 2.00-13.30\nSession 2: Subjects of Self-Criticism\n\n \;\n\n1. Histor ies of Self-Criticism within the Palestinian Liberation\nStruggle – Abd el-Razzaq Takriti\, University of Sheffield\n2. Promises not Reached\, Dre ams Waiting to be Realized: Oslo and its Aftermath – Eileen Kuttab\, Bi rzeit University\n3. The Roots of Oslo: Beyond an Ideological Critique –  Adam Hanieh\,\nSchool of Oriental and African Studies\, London\n\n\n13.3 0-14.15\nLunch\n\n\n14.15-15.45\nSession 3: Oslo and the Fragmentation of the Body Politic\n\n \;\n\n1. The Palestinian Citizens in Israel After Oslo – Nimer Sultany\, School of Oriental and African Studies\, London \n2. Wadi ‘Araba: Precarious citizenship and Palestinians in Jordan –  Mohammad Al-Masri (tbc)\, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies\n 3. On Loss and Renewal in Lebanon – Diana K. Allan (tbc)\, Cornell Uni versity\n\n\n15.45-16.00\nCoffee\, Tea and Refreshments\n\n\n16.00-17.30\n Session 4: International Law\, the Human Rights Turn\, and the Struggle fo r Palestine\n\n \;\n\n1. International Law as Anti-Colonial Struggle – Hassan Jabareen (tbc)\, ADALAH: The Legal Center for Arab Minority R ights in Israel\n2. Settler Colonialism and International Law in the 21st Century -\nDarryl Li\, Columbia University\n3. In the Land of the Internat ional: Palestine\, Revolution and War - Samera Esmeir\, University of Cal ifornia\, Berkeley\n\n\n \;\n \;\n\n\nDAY TWO | Sunday 6th October 2013\n\n\n \;\n \;\n\n\n9.30-10.00\nRefreshments\n\n\n10.00-11.40 \nSession 5: Social Reproduction Under Oslo\n\n1. Water as Political Tool to Encourage or Discourage Settlement -\nMark Zeitoun\, University of Eas t Anglia\n2. Solidity and Fluidity in the Bubble: Housing Development\,\nS tate-building\, and Cultural Reproduction in the Contemporary West\nBank – Kareem Rabie\, The Graduate Center\, City University of New York\n3. Breaking the Popular\, Securing the Local: Aid and Its Fragmentary\nStates – Lisa Bhungalia\, Syracuse University\n4. Hooked on Electricity: Colo nizing Palestine on the Grid – Omar Jabary Salamanca\, Ghent University \n\n\n11.40-11.55\nCoffee\, Tea and Refreshments\n\n\n12.00-13.40\nSession 6: Oslo and the Consequences for Resistance\n\n1. International Investiga tive Commissions in Palestine\, Before and\nAfter Oslo – Lori Allen\, U niversity of Cambridge\n2. Contextualizing Contemporary Palestinian Popula r Resistance - Ala Al-Azzeh\, Rice University\n3. Palestine De-Osloized! – Haidar Eid\, Al-Aqsa University\n4. The Oslo Generation on Exile Poli tics: Between Solidarity and\nLeadership – Nour Joudah\, Institute for Palestine Studies\n\n\n13.40-14.25\nLunch\n\n\n14.30-16.10\nSession 7: Int egrating Critique and Moving Forward\n\n \;\n\n1. Co-opted Solidarity and the Challenge of Joint Struggle - Sara Kershnar\, International Jewis h Anti-Zionist Network\n2. Rebuilding the Movement: From the Popular Commi ttees to the Labor\nUnions – Jamal Juma\, Stop the Wall\n3. Organizing in Yarmouk Camp – Youssef Fakhreddine\, Ajras Al-Awda\, Yarmouk Camp\, Syria\n4. Don’t Mourn – Organise: Organisation\, the Struggle Against Apartheid and the Palestinian Predicament - Steven Friedman\, Rhodes Univ ersity/University of Johannesburg\n\n\n16.10-16.25\nCoffee\, Tea and Refre shments\n\n\n16.25-18.00\nSession 8: Roundtable\n\n\n\n \; LOCATION:SOAS University\, Thornhaugh Street\, Russell Square\, WC1H 0XG\, London\, United Kingdom GEO:51.5223871;-0.12687340000002223 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Thornhaugh Street\, Russell Square\, WC1H 0XG\, London\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=SO AS University:geo:51.5223871,-0.12687340000002223 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR