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 Exploring urbicide, resistance, and the futurity of politics of Palestinian refugee spaces, guided by experts in the field!

How do Palestinian refugee camps endure as spaces of memory, identity, and political struggle in the face of relentless destruction?

This two-day workshop brings together research, collective reading, and critical dialogue to explore refugee camps as both lived environments and powerful symbols of resistance.

Drawing on recent scholarship—including Bleibleh, Perez & Bleibleh’s study of Jenin camp—we examine how urbicide, displacement, and the systematic targeting of refugee spaces reshape the right of return and the meanings of Palestinian resilience. Participants will engage with key texts, discuss the evolving forms of resistance within and beyond the camps, and take part in a scenario-building exercise imagining possible futures for refugee life, identity, and collective memory.

Open to students, researchers, activists, and anyone interested in the spatial, political, and human dimensions of Palestinian displacement.

The discussion will be guided by experts in the field.

This is a pay what you may event. This model lets participants contribute whatever amount they can. It keeps our work accessible while ensuring that no one is excluded because of cost. Its core strength lies in shared responsibility: those who can give more help sustain those who can’t. This approach is essential to our self-funding and independence, allowing us to host rigorous, critical events without relying on external agendas or institutional gatekeepers.

If you are facing trouble paying through eventbrite, please reach out and we are happy to make other arrangements (crypto, instapay, exchange of services, etc.).

You like critical theory but you don't have the time to commit to a course or a workshop?

This event has you covered. Think about listening to your favorite radio show, but it's a theory workshop. 

A live, radio-style conversation on political theory—power, ideology, and the structures that shape our world.
Join us every Saturday to listen in, think out loud, or just vibe while doing life.
No jargon, no gatekeeping. Just serious ideas in a casual setting. 

This three-day workshop explores martyrdom as subjectivity: a lived, shared, and generative force in the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Our papers derive from the history and intellectual production of various resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon. Through this insurgent intellectual history we locate the place of martyrdom and sacrifice in the life of the Resistance. From this standpoint, we interrogate, challenge, and re-write extant theory discussing ‘the power over life and death’.

Through four grounded, insurgent research projects, we explore how martyrdom creates biographies beyond the self, how dismemberment becomes a symbol of resilience, how legacy animates resistance, and how traditions breathe new life into partisan struggle.

Together, we ask: What remains after death? What forms of life emerge from sacrifice? And how does martyrdom trouble the sovereign power to define life and death?

Over three days, Ameed Faleh, Ahmed Dardir, Majd Darwish, and Bashar al-Lakis will share their research on martyrdom and/as subjectivity, which will be part of our panel at the forthcoming BRISMES annual meeting.

On the 1st session (Sunday 22 June) the presenters will provide a brief overview of their research, followed by an extensive Q&A session.

On the 2nd session (Monday 23 June) we will discuss some of the material we are using in our research, including primary documents. The documents will be provided beforehand, in case some of the participants would like to go through them in preparation for the discussion.

The 3rd session (Tuesday 24 June) is for the final discussions and concluding remarks. Participants are encouraged to reflect on the relevance of our research for real life struggles—and challenge us if they want.

This is a rehearsal for our forthcoming panel at BRISMES. Part of the revenues will be used to cover our conference expenses.

This is a pay what you may event; participants are welcome to contribute as much (or as little) as they can.

Want to flex your power-knowledge? Show off your discourse? Ask questions about the (very understandable and relatable) theories of Michel Foucault?

Come to our coffee hours and join the discussion.