April 23 2am EDT - April 24 7:15am, EDT - Livestream (Microsoft Teams) and in person, Bethlehem Palestine

The Social Work Forum 2025 at Bethlehem University, themed “The Peril and Promise of Building Resilience and Mobilizing for Freedom,”
Date: Wednesday 23 April and Thursday 24 April
Location: Bethlehem University (live access available through Microsoft Teams)
Keynote speaker Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian—a leading Palestinian feminist scholar—will address the systemic violence of the settler colonial state, including its unchilding practices, sacralized politics, and gendered state crimes. She brings a powerful body of work spanning global academia, including her recent publications on abolitionism and state violence.
Joining her is Stéphanie Wahab, a social work scholar focused on justice-based knowledge and state-sanctioned violence, including systemic racism and the criminalization of marginalized communities.
Together, they spotlight how critical social work in Palestine weaves together theory, resistance, and care to counteract the structural and everyday effects of occupation, from housing and labor to family cohesion and land dispossession.
The Forum highlights the central role of social work in Palestinian resistance and liberation. Recognizing social work as both a mode of care and a form of political action, the forum emphasizes its integration into community organizing, psychosocial support, and steadfastness under colonial oppression.
For more information, to register or to join live on Microsoft Teams: https://www.bethlehem.edu/conferences/social-work-forum-2025/#about

Program: SWF-Program-Day-1.pdf

note: registration form and program are in Arabic