Educating within the occupation

Join us for an online conversation with Palestinian journalist Hayat, live from Bethlehem. Hayat has reported on Israeli settlements and aggressions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for almost a decade.

City of Bethlehem
City of Bethlehem.

Hayat will talk about her work reporting on the current situation as well as contribute with perspectives on childhood and parenting, education, and the effort to disseminate knowledge about Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. There will be time for questions after her talk.

This seminar is the first in the series Knowing oppression: Stories within and about the occupation of Palestine in which we want to create a space where we can learn about the occupation of Palestine through stories from experts who work with or/and within the occupation.

Registration

Everyone is welcome but space is limited; please register by sending an email to Dorthea Bjerre Jepsen.

About the series

Knowing oppression: Stories within and about the occupation of Palestine is a series of seminars. With these seminars we want to create a space where we can learn about the occupation of Palestine through stories from experts who work with or/and within the occupation.

As we witness the current escalations of violence in Gaza, we also witness an intense political struggle over what counts as knowledge and who counts as knowers. As scholars of education, we recognize that the ways we come to know are not only shaped by but also work to shape political action, legitimacy, and (in)visibility.

Witnessing different stories from within and about the aggressions unfolding in Palestine is crucial for understanding how the production and dissemination of knowledge can lead to both silencing and dehumanization as well as affirmation and care.

By attending to the historical and contemporary ways in which different knowledges about the occupation of Palestine are silenced or amplified, this series of seminars aim to provide an opportunity to reflect on questions on knowledge of oppression and oppression of knowledge under the occupation.