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This means that the the talk by Dr. Puar scheduled for Thursday, March 12 has been cancelled.
We thank you for your interest in HI programming and in this talk in particular. We hope that we will be able to reschedule this presentation for a future date.
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Debility and Disability in Palestine: Notes Towards Southern Disability Studies
This keynote will detail various strands of histories of disability in Palestine and their import in terms of activism, advocacy, and the field of southern disability studies. Based on fieldwork with disability and rehabilitation center workers in 2016 and members at refugee camps in the West Bank from the summer of 2018, Jasbir Puar’s research suggests that disability is lived as an inevitable consequence of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.
is Professor and Graduate Director of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) published with Duke University Press in the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise that she co-edits with Mel Chen. Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), which has been translated into Spanish and French and re-issued in an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (December 2017).
Puar鈥檚 edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ (鈥淨ueer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization鈥�) and co-edited volumes of Society and Space (鈥淪exuality and Space鈥�), Social Text (鈥淚nterspecies鈥�), and Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly (鈥淰iral鈥�). She also writes for The Guardian, Huffington Post, Art India, The Feminist Review, Bully Bloggers, Jadaliyya, and Oh! Industry. Her writings have been translated into Polish, French, German, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Danish.
Puar has held visiting positions in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, and Link枚ping University in Sweden.
Currently, Professor Puar is completing her third book, a collection of essays on duration, pace, mobility, and acceleration in Palestine titled Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts.
Presented in partnership with the 51猎奇入口 Department of Anthropology, Students for Justice in Palestine, the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Claremont Graduate University Cultural Studies Department, and Pomona College Politics Department.