Gender Studies Program
Mada al-Carmel –Arab Center for Applied Social Research
Invites you to attend:
The Second International Conference
The Illusion of Justice in the Settler Colony: Palestinian Women, Law and the State
Thursday, July 14th 2016, Akkotel Hotel, Akka (Acre) Old City, 1 Salah Ad Din Street
Program (PDF):
10:00-10:10: Welcome and Opening
Mtanes Shihadeh, Director of research programs, Mada al-Carmel
10:10-10:30: Opening lecture
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor of Criminology, Director of Gender Studies Program, Mada al-Carmel
A Feminist Critical Perspective on Palestinian Woman, Law and the Jewish State
10:30 – 11:45 First Session: Women, State Racism, and the Law
Chair: Himmat Zu’bi PhD Student, Ben-Gurion University
Cheryl I. Harris, Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, School of Law, University of California – Los Angeles
The American Experience in State Racism and the Law
Suhad Bishara, Advocate, Director of Land and Planning Unit, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Gendered Spaces in the Formation of the Israeli Settler Colonialism
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder, Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University
The Policy of De-Classing the working Palestinian Women in Al-Naqab
11:45– 12:15 Break
12:15-13:45 Second Session: Gender, Racism and Violence against Women
Chair: Aamer Ibrahim, Masters Student, Tel Aviv University, Assiwar Association-Volunteer
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor of Arts, Queen Mary, University of London
Palestinian Women Confronting Racial Violence
Nisreen Massarwi, advocate, Kayan – Feminist Organization
The state, the Palestinian Employer and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Abeer Baker, Human Rights Advocate
The Absence of Legal Protection for Palestinian Prisoner Women in Israel
Saeda Mogari-Renawi, PhD Student, Hebrew University
Critical analysis of Rape Crimes against Palestinian Women as Presented in Israeli Courts
13:45-15:00 Lunch
15:00- 16:15 Third Session: Law, Death, and the Border Zones
Chair: Bana Shoughry Badarne, Advocate, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Hebrew University, PhD student of law, Hebrew University
Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
Mexico’s Living Dead and the Policies of Death
Areen Hawari, PhD Student, Ben-Gurion University and Mada Al-Carmel
Debates on the Personal Status Laws’ Amendment: Discourses and References
Hala Mousa Dakwar, family affairs Advocate
The State and the independence of Ecclesiastical Courts: A Colonial Patriarchal Legacy and a Pure Political Decision
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Lecturer, Al Qasemi Academic College of Education
Frozen Laws –Frozen Bodies: On the Detained Palestinian Women Corpses
16:15:16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Discussion and Conclusion
MK Haneen Zu’bi, Joint List, Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Adv. Alhan Nahas-Daoud
** The conference will be held in Arabic and English – Interpretation will not be provided.
To register or for more information: Mada Al-Carmel, Tel: 04 855 2035, e-mail: mada@mada-research.org
