Debate
What is BDS? The case for academic boycott
- Date
- Tuesday 19 November 2024
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.02
Inspired by the South African movement against apartheid, the BDS movement was launched in 2005 by Palestinian civil society organizations calling for non-violent resistance against oppression. The panel will discuss the idea of BDS and provide an overview of historical examples from the anti-apartheid and civil rights boycotts in South Africa and the United States, in order to address the case for academic boycott in the context of scholasticide, or total annihilation of the education system in Gaza.
Speakers:
- Sai Englert is a lecturer at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. He works on settler colonialism, Zionism, labour movements, and antisemitism.
- Elisa Da Vià is a lecturer at Leiden University. She is a political ecologist working on ecocide, food sovereignty and agrarian justice.
- Marie Louise Krogh is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. She teaches and conducts research in modern and contemporary political philosophy and is currently working on the project 'The Empire of German Idealism'.
- Mirjam Twigt is a Research Officer / Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University. She works on border violence, digital connectivity and transnational solidarity specifically in relation to Jordan and Iraq.
- Manar Ellethy is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer at Leiden University and Utrecht University. She works on race and cultural studies, African-American history, and Black and Arab/North-African solidarity.
The panel will be moderated by Elena Burgos Martinez, environmental anthropologist and political ecologist at Leiden University's Institute for Area Studies.
The event is open to LU students and staff.