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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
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
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Rachel Rosen
Location
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Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreWilkins BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
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
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.