{"id":16474,"date":"2024-09-23T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2024-09-22T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T02:15:36","slug":"leila-farsakh-lecture-09-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/09\/23\/leila-farsakh-lecture-09-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Farsakh lecture 09\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>In the series organized by Michel DeGraff entitled <em>Language &amp; Linguistics in Decolonization and Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine, and Israel<\/em>, earlier announced <a href=\"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2024\/09\/09\/degraff-organizes-language-linguistics-in-decolonization-liberation-struggles-in-haiti-palestine-israel\/\">here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Leila Farsakh (UMass Boston)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Power and Limits of Language<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>September 25, noon-2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>Room E51-095<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This lecture will explore the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and unpack how Zionism was a European project of Jewish national self-determination that could not escape colonial mechanisms of self-actualization in Palestine and what became Israel. \u00a0I will explore how power, imperial dynamics and forces of resistance shaped the way language has been used to understand Jewish and Palestinian nationalism in Israel\/Palestine as well as to extol, sanitize, and\/or reject the colonial foundation of Zionism.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the series organized by Michel DeGraff entitled Language &amp; Linguistics in Decolonization and Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine, and Israel, earlier announced here: Speaker: Leila Farsakh (UMass Boston) Title: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Power and Limits of Language Time: September 25, noon-2pm Location: Room E51-095 Abstract: This lecture will explore the origins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}