Online Panel Discussion | The Renewal of the Palestinian Movement. A Transnational Unity from Below?

VIDC: Thursday, October 28, 2021, 05:00-06:30pm CET (Zoom-Webinar), 06:00-07:30pm Palestine time

Speakers: Mohammed El-Kurd, Jerusalem, Yara Hawari, Ramallah, Ahmed Abu Artema, Gaza
Moderator: Helmut Krieger
The event deals with the current protest movement in Palestine and explores the question as to whether it represents a new unity from below. To what extent has the struggle of Palestinian communities against the Israeli occupying power gained momentum, particularly in the last few months?  Further information and registration

You can watch the recording of the event here:
https://www.facebook.com/VIDC.org/videos/412462720470271

Podcast | Lebanon in Crisis

Nadya Sbaiti,  Assistant Professor at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University Beirut, speaks to Connections host and by Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani about the crisis in Lebanon. Listen to the podcast here.

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التضامن في زمن الحرب واللجوء – سوريا ولبنان وفلسطين في ظل الجائحة العالمية

إن الوباء الناجم عن انتشار فيروس كوفيد-19 أدى إلى تفاقم الوضع الاقتصادي و الاجتماعي و إلى انخفاض الخدمات العامة في العديد من الدول العربية ؛ لا سيما تلك التي تعاني من الأزمات وعدم الاستقرار السياسي والحروب، بما في ذلك سوريا ولبنان. وقد أثرت هذه الوضع الاقتصادية المشحون بشكل أكبر على المجتمعات الأكثر هشاشتاً، بما في ذلك العمال المياومين واللاجئين داخل و خارج المخيمات و كذلك النازحين داخلياً. أدت الإجراءات الاحترازية التي فُرضت للتّخفيف من الأثر الصحي للفيروس كالتباعد الاجتماعي و منع التجول، إلى تعميق الفجوات الاجتماعية والنفسية بين السكان وكشفت عن اللامساواة التي تواجه الطبقات المهمشة ومجتمعات اللاجئين. علاوة على ذلك ، حيث زادت بعض الدول العربية من دور الأجهزة

العسكرية خلال الأزمة ، مما يدعي للقلق من استخدام النهج الأمني بشكل أكبر في المستقبل

في الوقت نفسه، رافقت الأزمة العالمية بروز مبادرات مجتمعية عبر العالم العربي وانتشار مبادرات التنظيم والتضامن الدولية. هذه المبادرات تفتح المجال للتفكير و فهمها في سياق الجائحة العالمية وما كشفت عنه من فشل للنظام الرأسمالي العالمي

ستقدم سلسلة ندوات  مشروع “معرفة الحرب” عبر الإنترنت نظرة جديدة على الوضع في سوريا ولبنان وفلسطين. يتم تقديمها من قبل مجتمع اللاجئين السوريين والفلسطينيين في لبنان وكذلك المجتمع اللبناني. مع الأخذ في الاعتبار شبكات التضامن السابقة للازمة و الحالية ضمن سياق النزاعات المستمرة في المنطقة. علاوة على ذلك ، سيتم عرض ومناقشة نماذج تنموية بديلة قائمة على نهج الاقتصاد التضامني

سيتم عقد الندوات عبر الانترنيت باستخدام برنامج زووم ، وسيتم تزويدكم برابط المشاركة فور تسجيل الحضور

التضامن في أوساط اللاجئين في لبنان: أنماط قديمة لأزمات جديدة

يوم الاثنين 29 حزيران 2020 في الساعة 5 مساءً بتوقيت بيروت

دعوة للمشاركة في البرنامج التدريبي للباحثين الشباب في مجال البحوث الاجتماعية التطبيقية

يسـر مـبادرة ” مـعرفـة الحـرب” الإعـلان عـن فـتح بـاب الـتقديـم لـلمشاركـة فـي بـرنـامـج الـتدريـب الـخاص بـالـمبادرة والـموجـه للباحثين الشباب المقيمين في سوريا ولبنان والذي سيتم تنظيمه على مراحل متتالية

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Panel Discussion | Lebanon, Syria and Palestine: Colonial Histories between a Durable Presence and Present

Lecture Room A, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, NIG Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, 20 May 2019, 5 – 7 pm

The panel discussion engages with questions on how and why colonial histories matter in the Middle East (hereafter ‘West Asia’) today? Posed by anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler, these questions serve as a call for finding alternative analytical and methodological concepts to capture the durable colonial marks that exist in our presence/present. Following Stoler’s critique of scholars who romanticise traces of this violent past, the panel will present new research and tools of investigation that engage deep colonial fault lines in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine today.

Speakers

Helene Kazan’s (Completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London (2019), and is a 2018-2020 Vera List Center Fellow on Art and Politics, New School, New York) inter- disciplinary and multi-media practice investigates risk through an analysis of international law, architecture, and the human experience of violence, observed and argued through the frame of ‘poetic testimony’.

Adriana Qubaia (Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University) is an anthropologist of Lebanon working on mapping contemporary political and socio-economic factors that shape the negotiation of gendered non-normative sexualities in Beirut. Therefore, she challenges dominant theoretical frameworks used to conceptualize gendered sexualities in West Asia.

Mette Edith Lundsfryd Stendevad (Ph.D. interdisciplinary candidate in Sociology and History at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester) enriches these diverse approaches through her extended work on oral history accounts from Palestinian women from Syria (some still living in Syria, some scattered in different European countries or beyond) speaking back to the ongoing history of violence in Syria, eviction from historic Palestine, forced separation, statelessness and borders

Concept and Moderation

Klaudia Rottenschlager (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna),
Noura Salah Adeen (Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

We invite the audience to participate in a feminist/intersectional, transdisciplinary conversation on how these specific research projects can speak to each other through a common understanding of colonial affect. The event is accessible for wheelchairs and will be held in English. Child care can be provided upon request. For further information please contact [email protected] and [email protected].

Workshop: Rooting Research in the Palestinian Context: Alternative Methodologies and Concepts

with Ayman Rezeqallah, Birzeit University, Palestine
Seminar room SG 2, Department of Development Studies, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna 10 May 2019, 12.00 – 6.00pm


The workshop explores and questions mainstream social science research in the Palestinian context. It asks how we can develop alternative research approaches and analytical frameworks that can tackle the rapid transformation of the Palestinian society due to political conflict, war and Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories. Given the rising (Palestinian) critique of research practices by (Western) scholars and international NGOs, the workshop further sheds light on understanding the political, economic and social complexities of territorial and social fragmentation.

  • What does it mean to include Palestinian communities residing in neighbouring countries having their right to return to their homeland suspended for more than six decades in our research?
  • What are ethical responsibilities towards the (researched) communities and how can we translate (local) experiences and struggles into academic knowledge production?
  • How can the communities we work with access and use the produced data as well as our research?

In the first part of the workshop, Ayman Rezeqallah will provide insights and challenges of producing knowledge within this complex research environment. In a second step, he will discuss his experiences of developing and implementing a multidirectional research project on Palestinian youth’s identities and community participation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Jordan.


Ayman Rezeqallah is Researcher and Survey Unit coordinator at the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University. He has spent nearly 20 years in community research and programs focused on marginalized groups including women, youth, people with disability, children, and Palestinian refugees in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. He is the project coordinator of the APPEAR higher education cooperation project Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context funded by the Austrian Development Agency.


Click here to download the event poster.


The workshop will be held in English and is accessible for wheelchairs. It is hosted by the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Please register for the workshop and send an e-mail to [email protected]

Introduction

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