THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE AFTER GAZA, a talk by Dr. Saree Makdisi (UCLA)

Posted: March 11, 2025

A Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, Saree Makdisi is an internationally recognized scholar and public intellectual.

Saree Makdisi is standing behind a podium with his hand in the air. The poster reads: The Question of Palestine After Gaza a public talk by Saree Makdisi. In the Top right hand corner there is a yellow bold font which reads: Free Community Iftar to Follow. And, in a text bubble in the middle of the image there is a quote which reads: "What draws me to Palestine is neither nationalism nor patriotism but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice, my unwillingness to just go on living my life."

Event Details

Friday, March 21, 2025
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
City: Peterborough, ON
The venue
Cost: Free

Please join Professor Makdisi for a free public talk on "The Question of Palestine after Gaza".

Professor Makdisi’s teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world, and, in addition to his scholarly articles, has also contributed pieces on current events to a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Romantic Imperialism(Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is presently working on a new book project, London’s Modernities, on the mapping and unmapping of London from the nineteenth century to the present. With his two brothers (also prominent academics), he cohosts the popular podcast, Makdisi Street.

Contact Info

This event is sponsored by the following departments, programs, and faculty groups at Trent University:

Global Justice and Development Studies

Gender and Social Justice

Cultural Studies

English Literature

Political Studies

History

The Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies

Media Studies

Philosophy

Sociology

Faculty4Palestine, Trent

Students4Palestine, Trent