by Mayssoun Sukarieh, Senior Lecturer at King's College London, Invited Profesor MSH

In collaboration with REPI

This event will be held in english and is open to the public.

While acknowledging the importance of knowledge production about Gaza and Palestine in the struggle for liberation, in this talk I emphasise the need for caution. This is because the academic world has its own internal logic, funders as well as researchers have their own agendas, universities also have their own ideas about research in the Strip. We are already seeing the seeds of an industry created where academic grants and funders design the research that benefits groups in the academy, but does not necessarily benefit Palestinian communities and struggles. There are by now so many calls for conferences and gatherings about what is going on in Gaza, I have been already approached to be part of grant applications for research projects in Gaza for “the day after.” This presentation will reflect on different education projects that consider education in its relation to political struggle and liberation, that focuses not only on education for social mobility but political activism, that refuses the division of knowledge production not connected to struggles, and that thinks of how we can, in the case of Gaza, learn from a long, worldwide tradition of education for liberation to rebuild the educational sector in radical ways.

Dr. Mayssoun Sukarieh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Development. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has lectured in anthropology and development studies in universities around the Arab region (American University of Beirut; American University of Cairo) and the US (Columbia and Brown Universities). Mayssoun's research interests engage broadly with social, economic and cultural transformations in relation to neoliberal development in the Middle East. Mayssoun recently published her first book: Youth rising: The politics of youth in the Global economy. In addition to this scholarly monograph, she has published widely across an interdisciplinary range of highly ranked academic journals, including Anthropological Quarterly; Political and Legal Anthropology; Third World Quarterly; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Race and Class; Journal of Youth Studies; and British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, from 12pm until 2pm

Salle Geremek
Institut d'Études Européennes (IEE)
Avenue F. Roosevelt 39
1000 Bruxelles

Free entrance