Events

📚 Speaker: Lana Tatour, University of New South Wales, presenting her newly published co-edited book (Stanford University Press, 2025)
Time: 5pm
Organised by: Centre for Critical Legal Studies, Social Theory Centre, and Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network📚

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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.