Join Herban Cura on Sunday, May 26 from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST for:

𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆: 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆, 𝑺𝒊𝒆𝒈𝒆 facilitated by Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins 🌱💧

This presentation traces Palestinians’ experiences of waste in the West Bank, and its ramifications for understanding all of the lands under Israeli occupation, including Gaza. Dr. Sophia explores what Palestinians’ improvisations for mitigating the effects of what she calls a “waste siege” can tell us about Palestinians’ approaches to time and collectivity, and how thinking through the category of ecology can help us understand those approaches. Dr. Sophia’s talk offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it begins with the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians forge their lives. It describes a series of conditions: from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of settler colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion over responsibility for the burdensome objects of daily life.

To register (min $35) but FREE to Palestinian community. Please email to receive code or register through our scholarship form. Palestine: Ecology, Waste, Siege — Herban Cura

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