BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:814@ukfiet.org DTSTART:20251021T140000Z DTEND:20251021T170000Z DTSTAMP:20251015T091308Z URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/scholasticide-in-palestine-and-the-respo nsibilities-of-western-universities/ SUMMARY:Scholasticide in Palestine and the responsibilities of western univ ersities DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, 21 October 2025\, 14:00-17:00\nREGISTER HERE FOR ONLI NE OR IN PERSON\nWhere: Online or MUSSI seminar room\, Iontas\, Ireland\nA s part of Maynooth Research Week 2025\, the Maynooth University Social Sci ences Institute (MUSSI) will host a discussion on scholasticide – the sy stematic destruction of education – in the context of Palestine. This ev ent will bring together Maynooth researchers and international colleagues to examine the nature and extent of Israel’s attacks on Palestinian scho lars\, students and educational institutions\, and to reflect on the role and responsibilities of western universities in response.\nThe Israeli sta te has systematically targeted and repressed Palestinian education since t he 1948 Nakba. Over the past two years\, Israel's perpetration of ‘schol asticide’ against Palestinian scholars\, students and sites of learning has escalated to unfathomable levels. This event will reflect on the natur e and extent of this ongoing scholasticide\, and will address the role and responsibilities of western universities in response to it.\nSpeakers:\n\ n Wesam Amer (Gaza University &\; Cambridge University)\n Maya Wind (Un iversity of California\, Riverside)\n Munir Nuseibah (Al-Quds University)\ n Bana Abu Zuluf (Maynooth University)\n Rania Muhareb (Harvard University &\; University of Galway)\n John Reynolds (Maynooth University)\n\nPal estinian political theorist Karma Nabulsi is credited for coining the term ‘scholasticide’ in the context of Israel’s 2008-09 assault on the G aza Strip. Nabulsi’s formulation of scholasticide sought to capture Isra el’s deliberate killing of Palestinian scholars and students and the sys temic obliteration of education institutions during that particular assaul t and invasion\, but also more generally going all the way back to the 194 8 Nakba. Since October 2023\, Israel's perpetration of scholasticide again st Palestinian educators\, students and sites of learning has escalated to unfathomable levels. It has been documented and condemned as such by UN a gencies and experts\, and has been conceptualised by international lawyers as a mass atrocity violation of the human right to education\, as part of a wider pattern of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Pale stine\, and as an act of genocide itself.\nThis event will feature present ations from Maynooth researchers and Palestinian colleagues reflecting on this ongoing scholasticide\, and will also address the role\, responsibili ties and failures to date of western universities in response to it.\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ukfiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/1 0/21October2025-Maynooth.jpg CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR