Reassessing the British Mandate in Palestine

The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), in partnership with several research centers in the Middle East, Europe, and North America have announced its annual conference titled “Reassessing the British Mandate in Palestine” taking place on 31 October – 2 November 2022.

The conference focuses on the British Mandate (1922-1948) that represented over a quarter-century of Palestine's modern history, during which the groundwork was laid to seize Palestinian political rights and establish a Zionist state. It was also a period of vibrant Palestinian mobilization, which was already in motion during the late Ottoman era and continued through the mandate period reaching its height during the rebellion of 1936-1939 — across cities and the countryside — to respond to newly emerging realities.​

It is these vibrant issues that the conference seeks to explore. Beyond treating the Mandate as a legal and political system, the conference revisits the social, cultural, and economic history of Palestine and Palestinians during that period. It brings together scholars from around the world, from Chile to Palestine and beyond, who are working on a wide array of disciplines and topics.

​The conference is jointly sponsored by the following institutions: Birzeit University; Council for British Research in the Levant; New Directions in Palestine Studies, Brown University; Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University; Hearing Palestine, University of Toronto; European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter; Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

​All listed times are Palestine timezone.