[BCMA] Fwd: Virtual roundtable: PRESERVING PALESTINE: Cultural Heritage Under Settler-Colonialism

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

Dear colleagues,

It was my pleasure to help contribute to this upcoming, urgent event:
PRESERVING PALESTINE: Cultural Heritage Under Settler-Colonialism,
organized by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) and sponsored
by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA). Please see the attached
poster and the complete event description below, and feel free to share
among interested colleagues and students.

Preserving Palestine

Cultural Heritage Under Settler Colonialism


Monday, November 20

9am San Francisco / 12pm NYC / 6pm London

7pm Jerusalem / 8pm Johannesburg


Register: https://rb.gy/b379h3

Email: librarians2palestine at gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/Librarians2Palestine
<https://www.facebook.com/Librarians2Palestine>Twitter: @Librarians2Pal
<https://twitter.com/librarians2pal>
*Instagram:* @librarianswithpalestine
<https://www.instagram.com/librarianswithpalestine/>

Organized and sponsored by:

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   Librarians & Archivists with Palestine
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   Middle East Librarians Association


Roundtable featuring expert librarians, archivists and scholars (bios
below):

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   Dr. Mezna Qato
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   Blair Kuntz
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   Dr. Rami Zurayk
   -

   Tam Rayan


Moderated by:

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   Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar
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   Raneem Hijazi


In support of our colleagues in Palestine, in support of the Palestinian
people, and in support of justice for all people, Librarians & Archivists
with Palestine <https://librarianswithpalestine.org/about/principles/>(LAP)
is honoured to present this roundtable featuring expert librarians,
archivists and scholars, Dr. Mazna Qato, Dr. Rami Zurayk, Blair Kuntz and Tam
Rayan to discuss the urgent need to Preserve Palestine. Sponsored by the Middle
East Librarians Association <https://www.mela.us/>, this educational event
serves as a call to information professionals to take action to protect and
safeguard Palestinian cultural heritage institutions and knowledge
repositories, including libraries, archives and museums, in defence of
Palestinian life, land and liberation. Speakers will provide examples and
case studies illustrating the impact of a century of theft, plunder and
destruction of Palestinian heritage, libraries and archives under British
and Israeli settler colonialism, as well as the myriad Palestinian social
and grassroots efforts to counter this epistemic violence and colonial
erasure.

Speaker bios:

Dr. Mezna Qato is a social historian at King's College, Cambridge, and a
Spencer Fellow at the National Academy of Education.  She is currently
writing a book on the history of education for Palestinians. She is a
founding member of the steering committee of Librarians and Archivists for
Palestine, and a coordinator of RIMAAL – the consortium on Middle East and
Latin American scholarship. Mezna was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Fellow at the
Centre for Palestine Studies at Columbia University in New York and
currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Sijal Institute for
Arabic Language and Culture in Amman, Jordan.

Blair Kuntz has been the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Librarian at the
University of Toronto Libraries since 2003. Since then, Blair has presented
papers at a number of international conferences on four continents
(including three times at the Virginia Woolf conference) and has had papers
published in journals such as Progressive Librarian and the Journal of
Radical Librarianship. In 2013, Blair was a delegate of the Libraries and
Archivists With Palestine delegation and is now one of the groups' social
media coordinators. Blair is currently a conference committee member of the
European Conference on e-Learning and the International Conference on
Gender Research and is also the co-chair of the University of Toronto's
Indigenous Metadata Committee.

Dr. Rami Zurayk currently serves as Interim Director of the Palestine Land
Studies Center (PLSC). He is Professor of the Department of Landscape
Design and Ecosystem Management at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food
Sciences. Dr. Zurayk’s research interests center on landscape and agrarian
transformation, as well as on political ecology of the Arab world. He has
published on food security in Gaza, on ‘Farming Palestine for Freedom” as
well as extensively on issues pertaining to land use, food security and
sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, and water and food systems during
conflict. For two years, he was the lead researcher on a UN-HABITAT program
on Land and Conflict in the Arab Region. He is a founding member of the
Arab Food Sovereignty Network, which focuses on issues of food sovereignty
in the Arab World, and is a contributor to Al Shabaka, the Palestine Policy
Network. A long-term activist on Palestinian issues and former advisor of
the AUB Palestinian Cultural Club, he has been serving as the co-chair of
the PLSC Steering Committee and highly engaged in the center’s activities
since its inception.
Tam Rayan is pursuing their PhD in Information at the University of
Michigan, specializing in Archives and Digital Curation, and is advised by
Ricky Punzalan and Patricia Garcia. They received their MI in Information
Studies (2020) and MA in Ethnomusicology (2016) from the University of
Toronto. Their research is focused on how to build transformative archival
representations of those in diaspora. Specifically, they are interested in
how to better serve and represent the recordkeeping needs of ethnic groups
impacted by forced migration, political conflict, and/or exile. Their work
has been previously published in Across the Disciplines and they have a
forthcoming publication in Archival Science. They are currently a core
member of the ACA BIPOC Special Interest Section, a former steering
committee member of the SAA Archivists and Archives of Color section, and a
former ARL/SAA Mosaic Fellow.

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Best,

Camille-Mary

*Camille-Mary Sharp*, Ph.D. (she/elle)

Faculty Fellow - Program in Museum Studies

New York University, Lenapehoking

camille.mary.sharp at nyu.edu

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