Palestine Teach-In: Testimonies of Genocide
Feb
29

Palestine Teach-In: Testimonies of Genocide

TESTIMONIES OF GENOCIDE: LEGAL RECOGNITION AND DECOLONIAL POLITICS

Join us for an interdisciplinary panel on the politics of oral and visual testimonies of violence in Palestine, recognition of state-sponsored crimes and the challenges of a decolonial framework within the legal context.

$0 - All welcome

$5 - Community Price

$10 - Full Price

$20 - Pay It Forward

Panelists:

**Dr. Zoé Samudzi is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Samudzi’s research engages the topics of genocide studies, race-making and visuality, the ethics of seeing/witnessing, biomedicalization, the repatriation of art and human remains, and the spatialities of race and violence. In teaching, Samudzi is especially interested in exploring visuality and the political histories of atrocity images.

**Samah Sisay, JD is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in international human rights and challenging inhumane immigration policies and abusive police practices. During her time at CCR she has worked on the case “Accountability for International Crimes in Palestine” during which Palestinian human rights organizations and victims made submissions in which they set forth war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israeli officials.

**Mohammed Nijim is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Carleton University. His broad research interests lie in genocide studies, Nakba studies, Indigeneity, North America's First Nations, Israeli-Arab conflict, culture, social theory, political economy, capitalism, power, racism and discrimination, nationalism and Ottoman Palestine. His intended Ph.D. research will compare settler-colonial projects in historic Palestine and Canada.

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#RDR Black Motherhood Mortality // All Sessions
Feb
4
to Feb 11

#RDR Black Motherhood Mortality // All Sessions

African American women are more than twice as likely to experience pregnancy-related fatalities than that of American white women. Research shows that African American women are not believed by medical professionals resulting in misdiagnoses, errors during/postpartum, and inattentiveness. In addition, the prevailing Eurocentric ideology that dominates the medical profession assesses pain differently for African American women. Believing that Black women have a high tolerance for pain combined with a lack of believability creates perinatal and maternal loss. In other words, being Black and pregnant is a life-threatening condition. The root of this disparity is racism. Sign up and join us for a month-long discussion that seeks to bring awareness by going to the root of this health crisis.

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