Sherene Seikaly is the co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Before the resolution passed on March 22nd, this panel discussed the argument for academic boycott, as well as elaborated on the direct role and responsibility of the Israeli academy in the state’s racial violence against Palestinians and setter colonial expansion across Palestinian lands.
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Sherene Seikaly is the co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. He has published two books, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia 2006) and Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (co-edited with David Scott, Stanford 2005). His forthcoming book, titled A Feeling for History: Romanticism, Islam, and the Tradition of Andalusismo (Chicago), is based in southern Spain and explores some of the different ways in which Europe’s Islamic past inhabits its present, unsettling contemporary efforts to secure Europe’s Christian civilizational identity. He has published extensively on religion, politics, and history in the Middle East and Europe.
PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
Maya Wind is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is a former steward at GSOC, NYU's graduate student union, and a member of Boycott from Within, the Israeli contingent of the BDS movement for justice in Palestine.
Author & Professor of Comparative Literature at Tufts University.
Kamran Rastegar is Professor of Comparative Literature at Tufts University and the author of Literary Modernity Between Europe and the Middle East: Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Literatures and Surviving Images: Cinema, War and Cultural Memory in the Middle East.