Visualizing Settler Colonialism: Films and Dialogue with Rehab Nazzal

Announced by CERIS

Event

Georgetown Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department, and the Disability Studies Program will host a screening and critical discussion with director Rehab Nazzal. This event features Nazzal’s short films, Vibrations from Gaza and Canada Park, followed by a dialogue with the director and two interdisciplinary panelists specializing in ecology and disability studies.

Canada Park interrogates the erasure of three Palestinian villages destroyed during the 1967 Israeli occupation and the subsequent establishment of a recreational park on their remains, facilitated by Canadian funding.

Vibrations from Gaza offers a rare and poignant examination of the experiences of Deaf children living under conditions of colonial confinement in Gaza. This event invites participants to explore pressing issues of ecological justice, spatial politics, and disability in contexts of conflict and occupation. Join us for an enriching discussion on resilience, representation, and the layered impacts of settler colonialism.

Speakers

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada and Bethlehem, Palestine. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples, on the land and on other non-human life. Nazzal’s video, photography and sound works have been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals in Palestine, across Canada and globally. She currently teaches at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.

Timothy Y. Loh is an anthropologist of science and technology, and a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. At Princeton, he is also a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology. His ethnographic research investigates sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States. He holds a PhD and an SM in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from MIT, and a BS in Foreign Service and MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. https://www.timothyyloh.com
Theodora Danylevich (moderator), PhD, teaches in Disability Studies, Writing, Medical Humanities, and Women’s & Gender Studies at Georgetown University. Her teaching covers topics of Disability Narratives, Health Inequities, and Equity and Access in Higher Education. She is the co-curator of “Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry,” and her scholarly writing has appeared in Lateral, Rhizomes, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, with a piece forthcoming in PEITHO. She is also a current Public Policy Fellow at the National Disability Institute.

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