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<h3 style="text-align:left" align="left"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">panel Discussion:
"“Solidarity with Palestine in Canada: BDS in Academia and
Federal Politics.”</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Friday,
Sept. 16, 2016</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">NMC
Seminar Room, 4 Bancroft Ave, Rm 200<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">With</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dimitri
Lascaris (The Green Party of Canada)</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Michelle
Hartman (McGill University)</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jens
Hanssen (University of Toronto)</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Michelle
Hartman</span></b><span
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is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute
of Islamic Studies, McGill University and a literary
translator from Arabic and French into English. Her most
recent academic book is<i> Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The
Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon</i>
(Syracuse University Press, 2014). Her recent literary
translations include the novels
<i>The Weight of Paradise</i> by Iman Humaydan (Interlink,
2016) and <i>The 99th Floor</i> by Jana Hassan (Interlink,
forthcoming 2016) as well as the short story collection,
<i>Beirut Noir</i> (Akashic, 2015). </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dimitri
Lascaris</span></b><span
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is the Justice Critic in the shadow cabinet of the Green
Party of Canada (GPC). He ran as a candidate for the GPC in
the 2015 federal election, in the riding of London West. Mr.
Lascaris is a lawyer called to practice in Ontario and New
York State. In 1991, Mr. Lascaris graduated from the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law. </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">He
also sat on the Board of Toronto350.org, and in 2014, he
presented to the President of the University of Toronto the
fossil fuels divestment petition of Toronto350.</span><br>
<b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jens
Hanssen</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
is Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Middle Eastern
and Mediterranean history at UofT where he teaches on
Contemporary Syria; settler colonialism in Palestine;
International Relations, Counter-insurgency and
decolonization in the Middle East; and urban colonialism in
the modern Mediterranean. His book publications include
<i>Fin de Siècle Beirut </i>(Oxford, 2005). He also holds a
SSHRC Insight Grant (2014-2018) on German-Jewish Echoes in
20<sup>th</sup> Arab Thought.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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