Session Day: 
Third Day
Keynote II: Reading in Time: Reflections on the Question of Palestine
Session Date: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - 15:30 - 17:00
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About the session: 

This piece reflects on the reading and writing of history, the connections between the personal and the historical, and the entangled links between the past and the lived present. Exploring the multiple registers of reading, from the mundane to the extraordinary, reveals a temporal spectrum that encompasses uprisings, initiatives, movements, and catastrophes. Through captions on a photograph, a love letter, a passport, and a death certificate, practices of reading emerge as commitments to, adventures in, and vehicles for time.

About the speakers: 

Sherene Seikaly: is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016) explores economy, territory, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine, tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is coeditor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and Jadaliyya and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.