BREM Upcoming Events

Date: 11 November 2025

Venue: S0.20

Time: 1-4:30pm

Date: 4 December 2025

Venue: S0.11

Time: 5-7pm

Speaker: Lana Tatour, University of New South Wales, presenting her newly published co-edited book (Stanford University Press, 2025)

Organised by: Centre for Critical Legal Studies, Social Theory Centre, and Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network

Join us for a timely and incisive conversation with author Lana Tatour, in dialogue with Nicola Pratt (PAIS) and Goldie Osuri (Sociology), on her recently published edited volume Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025, co-edited with Ronit Lentin). This groundbreaking collection argues that the colonization of Palestine is inseparable from the global histories and logics of race, and it places Palestine at the heart of conversations about imperialism, settler colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.

The event will delve into the rich and often-overlooked tradition of theorizing race within Palestine studies; the entanglements of race and international law; the politics and practice of racialization; and the structures and everyday expressions of anti-Palestinian racism. It will also speak to the urgency of the present moment, addressing how these frameworks help us understand Israel’s ongoing violence in Gaza and the wider global landscape of solidarity, resistance and struggle.

This event will be of particular interest to those working in Middle East studies, critical race theory, anti-colonial and feminist thought, international law, and anyone seeking sharper conceptual tools for understanding both the history and the contemporary politics of Palestine.

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Date: 15 January 2026

Venue: FAB 2.32

Time: 1-2pm

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(Un)settling Whitenessinterrogates the colonial and racial nature of Europe’s so-called ‘migrant crisis’, specifically the increasing symbiosis between border and violence in contemporary Europe. It asks: What are the functions and implications of Europe’s contemporary methods of border violence, and where do they come from? And what does the escalation of violence at Europe’s borders tell us about the intimacies between borders, colonialism, and whiteness?(Un)settling Whitenessmakes the counterintuitive move of using ‘settler colonialism’ as an analytic to understand border dynamics of violence and security in Europe (the previous ‘metropole’). Tracing the historical evolution of border regimes of migration security from white settler colonies to the ‘metropoles,’ the book reassesses Global North borders as (post)colonial tools designed tosettlewhiteness as the nation-state’s true ‘native’ and final ‘possessor.’ More than tools of sovereignty, Global North borders are theorised as instruments to materialise a longstanding imagery of the nation-state as a white possession. The book also provides the first systematic investigation into the colonial genealogies of contemporary methods of border violence, connecting such practices to past techniques and rationales of repression and policing deployed at the (settler) colonies. In doing so, it re-evaluates Europe’s border violence as not an exception to a post-war liberal order, but rather as recurrences of historical, colonial logics of racialised expropriation, oppression, and (dis)possession within the metropole.

Date: 15 January2026

Venue: FAB 2.32

Time: 1-2pm