Wednesday, April 10, 4:30 PM EDT - in person at Robinson Upper Library/Grad Lounge Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard

Note from NENJP Calendar - There is no message that this presentation is only for Harvard ID holders so we assume it is open to the public. There is also no RSVP link.

The Council for Digital Education and Scholarship presents a workshop by Christopher Malley (Department of History)
“Cyber Intifada: Surveillance and Networked Insurgency in Palestine”

From the start of the second Palestinian Intifada (2000-2005), Palestinians have turned to cyberspace as a communicative and strategic resource for political mobilization in the context of extreme restrictions on physical mobility coupled with spatial dispossession. In this period and since, Palestinian anthropologists and critical social scientists have developed a critical vocabulary for thinking about cyber mobilization (cyber “intifada”) together with cyber colonialism and the Internet as a technique of rule.

This presentation reassesses this literature in light of the present Israeli assault on Palestinian life and proposed potential avenues for future research for scholar-activists in the digital humanities.

Christopher Malley is in his second year of the Harvard PhD program in History and Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on contemporary Iraq from a critical legal studies perspective. His dissertation is based on both archival and ethnographic methods, and it examines lawmaking both internationally and in Iraq from the 1990s to the present. He holds a BA in History from Yale College and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Contact: cmalley@g.harvard.edu