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Gaza Is Burning, A Critical Solidarities Series @Dartmouth WGSS

  • Image of artwork based on traditional Palestinian embroidery with brief text advertising the "Gaza is Burning" event series

Event 1: Maura Finkelstein

"Scholars Speak: The Palestine Exception in US Academia" 

Annelise Orleck and Maura Finkelstein in Conversation

Wednesday October 23rd, 7pm on Zoom

 

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Headshot of Maura Finkelstein
Maura Finkelstein

Event 2: Amira Hass

"Writers Speak: History Didn't Begin on October 7"

With Special Guest: Marianne Hirsch

Tuesday, October 29, 7pm in Rockefeller 003 (and on Zoom, registration required - https://dartgo.org/AmiraHass)

This event is free and open to the public. Thank you to the Leslie Center for the Humanities for co-sponsorship.


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Headshot of Amira Pass
Amira Hass

Amira Hass has lived and reported in Ramallah since 1997 and also in Gaza. She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, and Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land. 

Suggested readings for this event: 

The Gaza Strip has been destroyed. So has hope for a fair future for the two peoples

Rethinking Holocaust Memory After October 7

Event recording: https://dartmouth.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c75fb051-2b00-4190-81c8-b21901080110

Forthcoming speakers, including Jennifer Lynn Kelly, Rabab Abdulhadi, and others will be announced in this yearlong series. This series is co-sponsored by Upper Valley for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace Vermont and New Hampshire. Please email wgss@dartmouth.edu with questions.