Please join the Fares Center for the inaugural event of the new Speaker Series. The Series will focus on the developments taking place in Israel-Palestine, as well as their ramifications in the region and beyond. The first event will be a speaker panel with Professors Omer Bartov, Leila Farsakh, and Yael Sternhell, who will analyze the events of the past year and the path forward.

EVENT: One Year since October 7, One Year of War
WHEN: Monday, October 7 at 5:30-7:00pm EST
WHERE: Mugar 200, at The Fletcher School (Tufts University), in-person only.
RSVP here One Year Since October 7, One Year Of War - MyFletcher (tufts.edu)

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He has written extensively on war crimes and genocide. Recent publications include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled “The Broken Promise: A Personal Political History of Israel and Palestine.”

Leila Farsakh is Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the editor of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition (University of California Press, 2021), and author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation, (London: Routledge, second edition, 2012) as well as the co-editor of The Arab-Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2020).  Her writings have also appeared in the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Boston Review, Al-Shabaka, and Jadaliyya, among others.

Yael Sternhell specializes in the history of the long Civil War era, the global history of archives, and the history of modern societies at war. She received her PhD from Princeton in 2008, after which she returned to her native Israel and joined the faculty at Tel Aviv. Her books include Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South (Harvard University Press, 2012) and War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War  (Yale University Press, 2023). Her work has won awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Society for Civil War Historians. Beyond academia, Sternhell is a board member of the New Israel Fund, Israel’s leading human rights and social justice organization, and a regular contributor for Ha’aretz. In 2024-2025 she is the Joseph Engel associate visiting professor at Harvard.