Disability Under Siege: Palestine

May. 6

12:00–1:30 pm
Online event

Attend a roundtable bringing  together public health practitioners, disability rights advocates, and researchers of trauma and debility. Panelists will discuss various aspects of disability in Palestine. Panelists include:

  • Jasbir Puar, Visiting Professor, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
  • Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Director, Conflict Medicine Program, Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut
  • Nadera Shaloub-Kevorkian, Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Dina Kiwan, Professor in Comparative Education, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Shatha Abu Srour, Disability Rights Advocate, Palestine

This event is co-sponsored by the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Global Studies, Disability Studies Workshop, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.