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Confronting Scholasticide in Palestine: Repression and Resistance in Academic Associations
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About This Event
Confronting Scholasticide in Palestine: Repression and Resistance in Academic Associations
Join us at Pilsen Community Books for a panel discussion on Palestine, academic freedom, and academic associations, featuring:
Margaret Power, emeritus professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, and Van Gosse, emeritus professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chairs of Historians for Peace and Democracy (HPAD)
Andy Clarno, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago and
Eman Abdelhadi, assistant professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, members of the organizing committee of Sociologists for Palestine (S4P)
Bill Ayers, retired Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois Chicago and long-term organizer and author.
Come learn about HPAD’s campaign to bring a resolution to the American Historical Association convention condemning the Gazan scholasticide and calling on the AHA to help rebuild Gaza’s educational system, which was overwhelmingly passed by membership but later vetoed byleadership. Also learn about S4P’s efforts to pass an institutional Boycott resolution in the American Sociology Association. The event will also explore what constitutes scholasticide and consider how academic professionals and community members alike can take proactive steps to preserve vulnerable histories.
Featured Author
Margaret Power
Margaret Power is Professor of History emeritus at Illinois Tech. She is the author or co-author of seven books, including the award-winning Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism and Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Salvador Allende, 1964-1973. She is co-director of Digitizing the Barrio, on the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, and co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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