22-24 June, 12 - 2 PM EDT - Online

Virtual Workshop: Martyrdom as Subjectivity: Death and its Afterlives in the Struggle

Martyrdom in liberation struggles is not only a historical event or military tactic—it is a mode of being, a form of narration, and a refusal to surrender life to colonial definitions of death. It marks not the end, but the beginning of new episodes of struggle and steadfastness. In the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, throughout the saga of the Palestinian and the Lebanese resistance, Israel’s bid to control life and death is met by the Resistance’s reconfiguration of the meaning of life and death, at once defying and accepting death as a fact of life under occupation, and reinventing religious and profane notions of martyrdom, turning death into a new life.

This three-day workshop explores martyrdom as subjectivity: a lived, shared, and generative force in the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Through four grounded, insurgent research projects, they explore how martyrdom creates biographies beyond the self, how dismemberment becomes a symbol of resilience, how legacy animates resistance, and how traditions breathe new life into partisan struggle.

Over three days, Ameed Faleh, Ahmed Dardir, Majd Darwish, and Bashar al-Lakis will share their research on martyrdom and/as subjectivity. Together, they ask: What remains after death? What forms of life emerge from sacrifice? And how does martyrdom trouble the sovereign power to define life and death?

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