She is the author of numerous influential books and articles, including Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge University Press 2015), Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press 2019), and the co-edited volumes, Engaged Students in Conflict Zones, Community-engaged Courses in Israel as a Vehicle for Change (Palgrave Macmillan Press 2019), When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism (Cambridge University Press 2021), and The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press 2023).
In this panel, three scholars address the urgency of a feminist position in times of upheaval. They will discuss themes such as transnational feminism, highlighting the need for interconnected struggles and solidarities across borders of region, nation, or community, the intersection of feminism and decoloniality, and explore how feminist theories and practice challenge colonial structures towards a more inclusive discourse. Additionally, a critical analysis of un-fathering in Palestine will also foreground Palestinians' lived experiences and resistance strategies.
In honoring the scholarship of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, this panel not only pays tribute to her pioneering contributions but also reinforces the need for critical feminist scholarship in advocating for justice, equality, and the radical transformation of global power structures.
The event will take place in a hybrid format on site at the Forum Transregionale Studien and via Zoom. We kindly ask for registration via eume(at)trafo-berlin.de
Contributions:
Agata Lisiak: Life-affirming Resistance as a Transnational Feminist Practice
Yasmeen Daher: Decolonial Feminism: Discourse and Practices
Abeer Otman: “Samhini Yaba سامحيني يابا” ... “Forgive me my daughter”: Fathering/Unfathering Amidst Genocidal Ashla’a in Gaza
Bios:
Agata Lisiak is Associate Professor of Migration Studies at Bard College Berlin and the writer, host, and producer of Spatial Delight, a ten-part podcast about space, society, and power. She works at the intersection of urban sociology, migration research, feminist theory, and cultural studies. She has published on migrant motherhood, urban girlhood, walking in the city, and cultural memory in postsocialist cities, among other topics. Her most recent research engages with the writings of Rosa Luxemburg and Doreen Massey on the politics of space.
Yasmeen Daher holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Montreal, Canada, specializing in political philosophy and ethics. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at Birzeit University in Palestine and Concordia University in Canada. She is actively involved in various political and feminist movements. She currently serves as the director of Febrayer’s Network, a network of independent media organizations in the Arab world.
Abeer Otman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Abeer has a doctorate in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral research focused on fathers and fatherhood in a settler colonial context: the case of occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ). Her research interests include fatherhood, father-child connectivities, trauma and suffering, secrecy and surveillance, livability, hope, futurity, and higher education.
Himmat Zoubi is an urban sociologist and a EUME Fellow from 2018 to 2024. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University and holds Master's degrees in Criminology and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on cities and urbanization in colonial contexts. She has published numerous book chapters and articles on topics such as settler-colonial, settler-colonial cultural cities, the Palestinian feminist movement, and indigenous knowledge and resistance.
