Fall 2025 MESALC SPEAKER SERIES
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). In this talk, Erakat will be in conversation with Tessa Farmer, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Studies Program. There will be ample time for audience Q&A. The event will take place at the Harrison Auditorium of the Albert and Shriley Small Special Collections Library. The address is 170 McCormick Rd. Paid parking is available in the Central Grounds Garage. This event is open to the public event, and all are welcome to attend. The "Conversations on Gaza" Series is sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, the Islamic Worlds Initiative, and the Forum on Religion & Democracy.
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Olin Whitney Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and codirector of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society; The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology; and most recently Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post–9/11 America. There will be ample time for audience Q&A. This free event is open to the public event, and all are welcome to attend.
This event is open to the public event, and all are welcome to attend.