Friday, October 13, 9:00 AM? (Santa Cruz, CA) through Saturday, October 14, 4:00 PM? (NYC)

(note: technically registration closes on Monday 10/9, but the registration form is still live)

Announcing two conversations to frame the 2023 convening. Sponsored by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (criticalzionismstudies.org)

IHRA, Critical Zionism Studies, & anti-colonialism

Santa Cruz, Oct. 13

A grounding conversation on the repression of ideas as a technology of colonialism, and on resistance. With Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley/ Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, Emmaia Gelman, Sarah Lawrence College & Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. This conversation opens with a recorded message from Corinna Gould, Spokeswoman and Tribal Chair of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone.

Towards a resistance framework

NYC, Oct. 14

Arun Kundnani, Author of What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism (Verso, 2023) and Kaleem Hawa, Palestinian Youth Movement

Logistics: The convening will take place in the intellectual space of UC Santa Cruz (Oct. 13) and NYU (Oct. 14). Participants at each site will be invited to join the other site remotely.

Online attendance: When you register for in-person attendance in either Santa Cruz or New York, you will be invited (and strongly encouraged) to attend the other day online. The meeting is not organized as an all-remote event — we are trying to build our community and ideas in ways that work much better when we’re together! However, for comrades who are involved in this work but can’t make it, we will have limited slots for all-online attendance.

For more information and to register: Battling the ‘IHRA definition’: Theory & Activism – Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (criticalzionismstudies.org)