BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5292@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260831T201641 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260917T181500 SUMMARY:Sherene Seikaly (University of California\, Santa Barbara): On Time in Palestine DESCRIPTION:This talk examines time in Palestine as a condition shaped by g enocide\, dispossession\, environmental destruction\, and the deliberate n arrowing of livable space. Moving across Gaza\, the West Bank\, Jerusalem\ , and southern Lebanon\, it traces how bombardment\, starvation\, toxic de bris\, settler violence\, and forced displacement alter the experience of duration itself. Time does not move forward evenly. It trembles\, stretche s\, accumulates\, and bears the weight of catastrophes that remain unresol ved.\\r\\nSherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the Univ ersity of California\, Santa Barbara. She recently held the Europe in the Middle East Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Seikaly’s Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (20 16) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials us ed economy to shape territory\, nationalism\, the home\, and the body. It received the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. Her second book\, F rom Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine (forthcoming)\, foc uses on a Palestinian man who was at once a colonial officer and a coloniz ed subject\, an enslaver and a refugee. She is the Editor of Journal of Pa lestine Studies\, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCS B\, co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series\, and co-editor of Jadaliyya. X-ALT-DESC:

This talk examines time in Palestine as a condition shaped by genocide\, dispossession\, environmental destruction\, and the deliberate narrowing of livable space. Moving across Gaza\, the West Bank\, Jerusale m\, and southern Lebanon\, it traces how bombardment\, starvation\, toxic debris\, settler violence\, and forced displacement alter the experience o f duration itself. Time does not move forward evenly. It trembles\, stretc hes\, accumulates\, and bears the weight of catastrophes that remain unres olved.

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Sherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She recently h eld the Europe in the Middle East Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wissensch aftskolleg zu Berlin. Seikaly’s Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine \;(2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory\, national ism\, the home\, and the body. It received the Middle East Political Econo my Book Prize. Her second book\, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Quest ion of Palestine \;(forthcoming)\, focuses on a Palestinian man wh o was at once a colonial officer and a colonized subject\, an enslaver and a refugee. She is the Editor of Journal of Palestine Studies\, Dir ector of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB\, co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series\ , and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

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