A conversation between Maya Wind, author of Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom, and Marina Velickovic, (Warwick Law School); chaired by Myka Tucker-Abramson (English & Comparative Literary Studies).

Event open to all Warwick staff and students. In-person only. Please register below.

Place: Central campus. You will be informed of the exact room the day before the event, after you have registered.

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.

As Maya Wind documents in her latest book, academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship and violently repress student dissent.

Author Bio
Maya Wind is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research on the reproduction and international export of Israeli security expertise has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.

There will be copies of Maya’s book on sale at the event.

Sponsored by Warwick UCU, Centre for Critical Legal Studies, English & Comparative Literary Studies, Social Theory Centre and Warwick Staff Student Solidarity Network. This event is part of a UK and Ireland-wide book tour that has been organized by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)

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