[Fdu] Friday: BDS in Academia and Federal Politics
Cynthia Wright
cynthia.wright at utoronto.ca
Wed Sep 14 16:11:51 EDT 2016
panel Discussion: "“Solidarity with Palestine in Canada: BDS in
Academia and Federal Politics.”
*Friday, Sept. 16, 2016*
*2-4 p.m. *
*NMC Seminar Room, 4 Bancroft Ave, Rm 200*
With
Dimitri Lascaris (The Green Party of Canada)
Michelle Hartman (McGill University)
Jens Hanssen (University of Toronto)
*Michelle Hartman*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/Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary
Landscapes of Lebanon/ (Syracuse University Press, 2014). Her recent
literary translations include the novels /The Weight of Paradise/ by
Iman Humaydan (Interlink, 2016) and /The 99th Floor/ by Jana Hassan
(Interlink, forthcoming 2016) as well as the short story collection,
/Beirut Noir/ (Akashic, 2015).
*Dimitri Lascaris*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. 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.
*Jens Hanssen*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 /Fin de Siècle Beirut /(Oxford, 2005). He also holds a SSHRC
Insight Grant (2014-2018) on German-Jewish Echoes in 20^th Arab Thought.”
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