Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber

The Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly, about Tatour’s recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin), Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism, settler colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. The roundtable participants will discuss the longstanding tradition of theorizing race in Palestine studies, race and international law, the politics of racialization, anti-Palestinian racism, antiracism and solidarity, and Israel’s current genocidal war on Gaza.

Lana Tatour is a Lecturer in Development at the School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney. She works on settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel.

Cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together Research Focus Group, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB’s Center for Middle-East Studies, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies