Palestinian Studies is an important and rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that focuses on Palestine and Palestinians. Studying and understanding Palestinian history, culture, politics, and society in historic Palestine as well as in the Palestinian diaspora has become more urgent than ever given the recent developments in Palestine and Israel. In the past decade, initiatives at North American universities, such as Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies and Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian Studies, have created important spaces for the free and open discussion and study of Palestine and Palestinians. The Princeton Palestinian Studies Colloquium (PPSC) aims to provide opportunities at Princeton University for learning about, analyzing, and discussing Palestine and Palestinians. Through a series of lectures and events over the course of the academic year 2024-25 the colloquium introduces Princeton students and faculty to the diversity and strength of this thriving field of scholarly inquiry. The goal is to showcase and interrogate the newest scholarship in the field at a high academic level.
The areas of Palestinian Studies the colloquium plans to explore include: social, economic, cultural, and political history; Palestinian political thought; international law and Palestine, ethnographies of Palestinian life in Palestine/Israel and in the Palestinian diaspora; the status quo on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank; the relevance of Palestinian Studies for other contexts including African American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies; Palestinian cultural production in Arabic and other languages.
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Co - Sponsors
Near Eastern Studies
Humanities Council
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Comparative Literature
African American Studies
Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.
Upcoming Events
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Olin Whitney Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society; The…
- Nadia Abu El-HajAffiliationBarnard/Columbia
- Raz SegalAffiliationStockton University
- Near Eastern Studies
- Humanities Council
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- Comparative Literature
- African American Studies
- Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.
Ms. Francesca Albanese was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, by the Human Rights Council at its 49th session in March 2022 and has taken up her function as of 1 May 2022. Ms. Albanese is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International…
- Francesca Albanese
- Razia Iqbal
- Near Eastern Studies
- SPIA
- Humanities Council
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- Comparative Literature
- African American Studies
- Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.
Associate Professor, Modern Arabic Literature and Film, Principal Investigator, European Research Council project
- Near Eastern Studies
- Humanities Council
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- Comparative Literature
- African American Studies
- Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.