CCJHR Event: 'Race and the Question of Palestine': In conversation with Dr Lana Tatour
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce an upcoming event: 'Race and the Question of Palestine': In conversation with Dr Lana Tatour
This event will take place on Thursday 27th November, 3:30pm-5pm at the 脕ine Hyland Room, The Hub, UCC.
In this roundtable event, (Radical Humanities and Archaeology), (Government and Politics) and (Law) will be in conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited volume, Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press, 2025).
The book, co-edited with Ronit Lentin, develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine鈥攍ike other imperial and settler colonial projects鈥攃annot be understood outside the grammar of race. Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, the books illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism, and explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system.
is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of New South Wales, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute. She is a scholar of settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, and citizenship, with a focus on Palestine. Her coedited book, was published in 2025 with Stanford 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press. She is currently completing her monograph, Colonized Citizens: Liberalism, Settler Colonialism, and Palestinian resistance. Lana is also a public commentator. She has appeared on ABC 深夜亚洲福利久久, the BBC, and TRT World, and her publications have appeared in The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, The Age, Overland, and more.
is based in the Radical Humanities Laboratory and in Archaeology at UCC. Her areas of interest are contemporary archaeology, especially of conflict, institutions, colonialism and gender, and various facets of heritage, especially related to difficult or 'dark' pasts.
is a critical political theorist lecturing in the Department of Government and Politics at UCC. His primary research interests are in radical political thought and imagination, with an emphasis on bringing the perspectives of the humanities to bear on the multiple and interlocking global crises of our time.
is a lecturer in the School of Law at UCC. Her research focuses on 鈥榟ome鈥� and draws from feminist, postcolonial and legal geographic theory, and global socio-legal studies.
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