1 PM on Sunday 10/27: Professor Sa’ed Atshan, chair of the department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College, will visit Homeowod Friends Meeting to talk about peacebuilding today, after a year of horrific crisis in Gaza that continues to escalate and expand. Sa’ed will draw on his Palestinian, queer, and Quaker identities to highlight pathways to justice and liberation that maintain key intersectional protections in the struggle (notably, how Palestinian national survival and resistance can work in conjunction with Palestinian LGBTQ survival and protections)
This event is free and open to the public. It will be at Homewood Friends Meetinghouse which is at 3107 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. There is also a Zoom option. Childcare is available. We will have an ASL interpreter on Zoom. There will be light refreshments (at least cookies and fruit) afterwards.
We ask that all who are interested (whether in-person or Zoom) to please register.
| Sa’ed Atshan’s areas of research include: a) contemporary Palestinian society and politics, b) global LGBTQ social movements, and c) Christian minorities in the Middle East. Atshan is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020). He is also the coauthor, with Katharina Galor (Judaic Studies, Brown University), of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020). The German translation of The Moral Triangle is entitled Israelis, Palästinenser und Deutsche in Berlin: Geschichten einer komplexen Beziehung (De Gruyter, 2021). Atshan and Galor also coedited the volume, Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022). His forthcoming book, Paradoxes of Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories, is under contract with Stanford University Press in their Anthropology of Policy Series. Atshan has recently embarked on two new projects. One is researching the convergent and divergent experiences of African-American and Palestinian Quakers, with an emphasis on the intersection of race and Christianity in the United States and Israel/Palestine. This project is entitled, “Can the Subaltern Quaker Speak?: Alienation and Belonging among Black and Palestinian Friends.” The other, “Queer Imaginaries and the Re-Making of the Modern Middle East,” is in collaboration with Phillip Ayoub (Political Science, University College London). Atshan and Ayoub are researching LGBTQ activism across the Middle East and North Africa region. Read more about Sa’ed here: https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/saed-atshan |
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