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List of Edward Said memorial lectures

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Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University, University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, American University of Cairo, London Review of Books and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Marina Warner and Cornel West.

Contents

Columbia University

  • 2005 Daniel Barenboim: Wagner, Israel and Palestine
  • 2006 Frank Kermode: Living On the Hyphen: Yeats, Anglo-Irish Poet
  • 2007 David Bromwich: Moral Imagination
  • 2008 Adonis: A Reading and a Recital
  • 2009 Noam Chomsky: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism
  • 2011 Ahdaf Soueif: Notes from the Egyptian Revolution
  • 2012 W. J. T. Mitchell
  • 2013 Rashid Khalidi
  • 2013 Judith Butler & Cornel West Palestine and the Public Intellectual: Remembering Edward Said
  • University of Warwick

  • 2004 Tim Brennan: The Politics of Belief
  • 2005 Tariq Ali: Palestine & The Western Liberal Conscience
  • 2006 Ahdaf Soueif: The Heart of the Matter: Palestine in the World Today
  • 2007 Gilbert Achcar: Orientalism in Reverse: Post 1979 Trends in French Orientalism
  • 2008 Declan Kiberd: Edward Said and the Everyday
  • 2010 Eyal Weizman: Spatial Politics in Israel and Palestine
  • 2011 Mourid Barghouti
  • 2012 Benita Parry: What’s Left in Postcolonial Studies?
  • 2013 Samir Amin: The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South
  • Princeton University

  • 2004 Mustafa Barghouti: Prospects for Peace: The Vital Role of Civil Society in Bringing Democracy, Justice, and Prosperity to Palestine and Israel
  • 2005 Judith Butler: Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic
  • 2006 Azmi Bishara: War, Occupation and Democracy: US Strategy in the Middle East
  • 2007 Tanya Reinhart: The Spirit of Struggle
  • 2008 Karen AbuZayd: Palestine Refugees: Exile, Isolation and Prospects
  • 2009 Amira Hass: One Occupation, Two Governments:The Onslaught On Gaza And The Palestinian Internal Rift
  • 2010 Noam Chomsky: "I Am Kinda": Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism
  • 2012 Mahmood Mamdani: “Settler Colonialism: Then and Now”
  • 2014 Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and United Nations Special Rapporteur, "On the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”
  • University of Adelaide

  • 2005 Robert Fisk
  • 2006 Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said
  • 2007 Ghada Karmi: Israel’S Dilemma in Palestine: Origins and Solutions
  • 2008 Sara Roy: The Impossible Union of Arab and Jew: Reflections on Dissent, Remembrance and Redemption
  • 2009 Saree Makdisi: From Occupation to Reconciliation
  • American University in Cairo

  • 2005 David Damrosch: Secular Criticism Meets the World: The Challenge of World Literature Today
  • 2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo
  • 2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual
  • 2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy
  • 2009 Rokus de Groot: Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music
  • 2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future
  • 2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"
  • Palestine Center

  • 2008 Avi Shlaim and Ali Abunimah: Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?
  • 2009 Richard Falk: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters
  • 2010 Rashid Khalidi The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere
  • London Review of Books

  • 2010 Marina Warner: Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights
  • 2011 Rashid Khalidi: Human dignity in Jerusalem
  • 2012 Ahdaf Soueif: Mina's Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution
  • 2013 Noam Chomsky: Violence & Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East
  • 2014 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace?
  • 2015 Daniel Barenboim
  • 2016 Naomi Klein (4 May 2016) lecture
  • References

    List of Edward Said memorial lectures Wikipedia