Monday, February 5, 1:00 PM EDT
Educide in Palestine - a Public Talk by Dr Victoria Araj
Part of the CSSGJ Spring 2024 Seminar Series collection
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) is very pleased to be welcoming Dr. Victoria Araj.
Dr. Victoria Araj is a lecturer in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Eleanor Glanville Institute, University of Lincoln. Outside academia Victoria has worked with Carnegie Middle East Center, Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies, Lincolnshire County Council’s Working Group in Anti-Racist Practice for Children’s Services and also with a number of UK and Turkey-based refugee and peace-education charities. Victoria holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Victoria’s research is on decolonised public history, contested heritage and inclusive education and is inspired by her Palestinian Christian heritage.
Abstract: In the recent sitting of the International Court of Justice (South Africa v Israel) on the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, KC noted that, “Almost 90,000 Palestinian university students cannot attend university in Gaza. Over 60 per cent of schools, almost all universities and countless bookshops and libraries have been damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of teachers and academics have been killed, including deans of universities and leading Palestinian scholars, obliterating the very prospects for the future education of Gaza’s children and young people.” This talk argues that these crimes against Gaza’s education system need to be contextualised in the historic and material oppression of the education rights of the Palestinian people. It is proposed that educide, first used by scholars to describe the wholesale destruction of the education system of Iraq in the 2003 illegal war, is applicable to the Palestinian case. Educide thus lends to the expansion of the definition of genocide beyond communities to systems. Unless educide is established as a crime against humanity by higher education institutions and indeed the ICJ, we risk the continued normalisation of the destruction of entire educations systems as a tool of war. Moreover, educide can provide a framework for accountability when challenging the complicity of universities in genocide.
This online talk will be held live on Zoom and all who register to attend the event in advance will be able to access the talk using Zoom through your Eventbrite ticket registration. Zoom details will be sent to your email two hours prior to the event itself starting.
The event will consist of an approximately 40-minute talk, followed by a 40-minute Q&A.
To register (note: time in link is UK): Educide in Palestine - a Public Talk by Dr Victoria Araj Tickets, Mon 5 Feb 2024 at 18:00 | Eventbrite