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.
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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.