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The role of Israeli higher education in Palestinian oppression: In conversation with Maya Wind

03 May 2024, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm

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Maya Wind speaks about her new book, "Towers of Ivory and Steel", in which she writes about Israeli academia’s complicity in what she defines as Israel’s settler-colonial project.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Rachel Rosen

Location

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Third Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

In this talk, Maya Wind will draw on the book to maintain that academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. 

In conversation with staff and students from UCL, Maya Wind will reflect on the implications of these insights for universities internationally.

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in higher education, social justice, colonialism.

Organised by

  • Critical Childhood Studies Research Group
  • Refuge in a Moving World
  • UCL Action for Palestine
  • UCL Students for Justice in Palestine
  • UCL UCU
  • UCL Middle East Research Centre

This seminar is part of a tour of Ireland and the UK organised by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP).

About the Speaker

Maya Wind

Postdoctoral Fellow at University of British Columbia

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. Her first book, published by Verso in 2024, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom", investigates the complicity of Israeli universities in Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid.