Witnessing and Narrating Violence and War in Palestine: One Year Later

The Palestine Project at the University of Iceland and the Middle Eastern Studies program announce an open meeting on the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza. The event is a repeat of the first event held by the Palestine Project in November 2023, featuring the same three speakers, Giti Chandra, Guðrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, and Viðar Þorsteinsson.

The aim of the meeting is to readdress some of the topics discussed a year ago, and examine what, if anything, has changed with regard to attitudes and reactions to the crisis, the use and abuse of terminology, the position of various institutions and organizations, and the performance of activism versus silence. The event will be in English.

Program

• Introduction: Þórir Jónsson Hraundal, lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Iceland
• Giti Chandra, research specialist at RIKK (Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference)
• Guðrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, Gender advisor at ASÍ (The Icelandic Confederation of Labour) 
• Viðar Þorsteinsson, philosopher and director of education at Efling union.
  Nikkita Hamar Patterson, PhD student and sessional lecturer at the University of Iceland and Thorir Jonsson Hraundal director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program will moderate the meeting.

Location and time: Veröld - the house of Vigdis, Monday 11 November at 16.30. Open to all, free admission.