THE RIGS INITIATIVE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES are cosponsoring a Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Feminist Studies Colloquium Series event: "What is Settler Colonialism?" by Dr. Maya Mikdashi on Friday, October 12 at 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in Walter Library Room 401/402. For more information, see below or click here.
Maya Mikdashi
October 12, 1:30-3:00 PM
Walter Library 401/402
"What is Settler Colonialism?"
Cosponsored by: Imagine Fund, ICGC, RIGS, and Departments of American Indian Studies, Asian Languages and Literatures, English, and History.
Abstract: This paper is an auto-ethnographic account of thinking, writing and feeling across two different settler colonial contexts, the United States and Israel/Palestine. I do so by tracing a family history that is situated at the intersections of Settler and Indigenous, Arab and American, and Lebanese and Palestinian subject positions. Throughout I question the efficacies of thinking comparatively and transnationally about settler colonialism as technologies of rule, curations of the past, and as embodied histories of the present.
Maya Mikdashi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a lecturer in the program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She currently is completing a book manuscript that examines the war on terror, sexual difference, religious and secular difference, and biopolitics from the vantage point of Lebanon. Maya is also pursuing research towards a manuscript on settler colonial affect as it is produced and circulated across family and academic archives. She is a co-founding editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya.com. Maya is also a filmmaker and writer, she is co-director of the feature length documentary film About Baghdad (2004), and director of Notes on The War (2006). Most recently Maya co-conceptualize
