August 26 4:00 AM EDT - Online

Reframing the Global Approach to Palestinian Rights

Join the Institute for Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) and Dr Samah Sabawi for the first online teach-in for the Palestine Public Webinar Series, followed by a Q&A with Professor Tony Birch.

Organised by Lina Koleilat, Tasnim Sammak and Natalie Ironfield, the Palestine Public Webinar Series responds to the state’s ongoing attempts to disappear Palestinians from public space - through the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, the IHRA definition, and the criminalisation of political dissent and Palestinian liberation movements. This logic of disappearance is not new. Disappearance has long been a strategy of the Australian colonial project, “built upon Indigenous absence from Indigenous lands” (Mcquire, 2024, p.149).

As Palestinian activist, mother, community organiser and scholar Tasnim Sammak has generously reminded us, we hold a collective responsibility to fight back against the attempted disappearance of Palestinians from public space.

In taking up this task, the Palestine Public Webinar Series will bring together Palestinian scholars, artists, and community organisers. Affirming the essential role of theory to an anticolonial praxis, this series centres Palestinian resistance, refusal, and world-making, ultimately aiming to foster a space for critical dialogue, creativity, strategizing and collective imagining.

Find more information and register here.

You can also keep up with the Palestine Public Webinar Series at the IPCS Instagram.