Lecture and Discussion with:

• Nadia Abu El-Haj
• Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University
• Co-Director, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Moderated by:

• Dirk Moses, Anne & Bernard Spitzer Chair in International Relations, Dept. of Political Science
• Omnia Khalil, Doctoral Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs

Pizza lunch will be served

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin’s Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as Vice President and Vice Chair of the Board at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington DC. The recipient of numerous awards, including from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, she is the author of numerous published articles on topics ranging from the history of archaeology and the role of historical narratives in Palestine to questions of race and genomics today. Abu El-Haj has published three books: Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001), The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012), and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (2022).

Time: 12:30-1:45 pm EST

Free!

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