ICM 2021-2022 SPECIAL SERIES: SETTLER COLONIALISM, SOVEREIGNTY, APARTHEID
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 4:45—6:15 p.m. ET
Speakers:
LOUBNA QUTAMI, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
VIRGINIA TILLEY, Klingberg Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
“Beyond Settlers and Natives: South Africa and Palestine in Comparison"
The second installment of ICM's yearlong series, "Settler
Colonialism, Sovereignty, Apartheid," with scholars Loubna Qutami and
Virginia Tilley, on the conceptual and historical ramifications of
comparing South Africa and Palestine.
SPEAKER BIOS
Loubna Qutami is Assistant Professor in the
department of Asian American Studies at the University of California,
Los Angeles. Qutami is a former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow from the
Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
(2018-2020) and received her PhD from the Department of Ethnic Studies
at the University of California, Riverside (2018). Qutami’s research
examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo
Accords through the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Her work is based on
scholar-activist ethnographic research methods. Qutami’s broader
scholarly interests include Palestine, critical refugee studies, the
racialization of Arab/Muslim communities in the U.S.,
settler-colonialism, youth movements, transnationalism and indigenous
and Third World Feminism.
Virginia Tilley is Frank
L. Klingberg Professor of International Relations in the department of
Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has
written extensively in books, articles and policy briefs on the
comparative politics of indigenous peoples in settler-colonial
societies. As project leader, co-author and editor, she supervised a
two-year team project for the government of South Africa on whether
Israeli policies in the occupied territories match the international law
definition of apartheid, later published as Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(Pluto Press, 2012). Most recently, she co-authored with Richard Falk
"Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of
Apartheid," (2017) a major report commissioned by the United Nation
Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA).