Dr. Sherene Seikaly: Palestine is Shrinking, Palestine is Everywhere
April 21, 2026
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
Location
Daley Library Room 1-470
Address
801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Join the Global Middle East Studies in an important conversation with Prof. Sherene Seikaly titled:
Palestine is Shrinking, Palestine is Everywhere
What does it mean to live in genocide? What does it mean to be a child, to parent, to age, to be disabled, in genocide? What does it mean to think and produce knowledge? I draw on these questions to learn from Palestinian lessons on time and space in our age of catastrophe.
Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016). Her forthcoming book, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is the Editor of Journal of Palestine Studies, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB, and co-editor of Jadaliyya.
Event is co-sponsored by: the Arab American Cultural Center, Dept of Criminology, Law, and Justice, Dept of History, Dept of Anthropology, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Social Justice Initiative, Dept of Gender and Women's Studies, Dept of Global Asian Studies, and the US Palestinian Community Network.
Space is accessible by wheelchair.
Date posted
Apr 13, 2026
Date updated
Apr 13, 2026