Welcome to Toronto Israeli Apartheid Week 2011.
Our tentative schedule is below.
Monday March 7: University of Toronto: Fitzgerald Building, Room 103, 7 p.m.
Interrogating Apartheid: Campus as a Site of Resistance
Speakers: Judy Rebick, Abbie Bakan, and SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid)
Abigail Bakan is Professor of Political Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her publications include Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (with Daiva Stasiulis), winner of the 2007 Canadian Women’s Studies Association annual book award; Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi); and Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (co-editor with Eleanor MacDonald).
Her current research, with Yasmeen Abu-Laban, addresses Israel/Palestine from the perspective of racial contract theory. Abigail Bakan is member of Faculty4Palestine, a committee of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
This event is put on by Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Toronto (SAIA-Toronto), a working group of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Toronto (OPIRG-Toronto).
Tuesday March 8: Ryerson University
Film Screening
Jaffa the Oranges Clockwork, by Eyal Sivan
Eyal Sivan is a documentary filmmaker and theorist who was born in Haifa and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. He is Reader (Associate Professor) in media production and Co-leader of the MA program in film, video and new media at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, at the University of East London (UEL).
After many years as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, Sivan settled in Paris where he is known for his controversial films. Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide-awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s films are regularly exhibited in major art shows around the world.
He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation.
Sivan is founder and artistic director of the Paris-based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is founder and chief editor of South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema and political critique edited by the Sapir Academic College in Israel where he lectures regularly.
He is member of the editorial board of the Paris-based publishing house La Fabrique, as well as of the French social and political studies journal De l’Autre Côté.
Sivan splits his time between Europe and Israel.
Wednesday March 9: University of Toronto, Bahen Auditorium, Room 1160, 7 p.m.
The Cultural and Academic Boycott
Speaker: Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-Director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984 on the French Reception of Hegel. Judith Butler is the author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (Routledge, 1993), Undoing Gender (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak in 2008), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009).
She is also active in gender and sexual politics and human rights, anti-war politics, and Jewish Voice for Peace. A founding member of the Russell Tribunal for Palestinian Rights and a board member of the Jenin Theatre, Butler is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.
This event is put on by Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Toronto (SAIA-Toronto), a working group of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Toronto (OPIRG-Toronto).
Thursday March 10: York University
York’s Complicity in Apartheid: Art, Culture and Resistance
Speakers: Paul Kellogg, John Greyson and SAIA
Paul Kellogg is an Assistant Professor in the Master of Arts Integrated Studies program at Athabasca University in Alberta. He received his Ph.D. (in Political Studies) from Queen’s University, and his M.A. (in Political Science) from York University. While an undergraduate at York, he spent one year as editor of Excalibur. He has published articles in various journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Contemporary Politics (U.K.), The International Journal of Zizek Studies, New Political Science (U.S.), and Political Studies (U.K.).
John Greyson is a Toronto video artist/filmmaker whose features, shorts and installations include Fig Trees (Best Documentary Teddy, Berlin Film Festival, 2009), Proteus (Diversity Award, Barcelona Gay Lesbian Film Festival, 2004), and Lilies (Best Film ‘Genie’ 1996). An Associate Professor in Film at York University, he was awarded the 2007 Bell Canada Award in Video Art.
Friday March 11: University of Toronto, OISE Auditorium, G162 (First Floor), 7 p.m.
State of the Siege, State of the Struggle: The case for Boycott Divestment, Sanctions
Speakers: Riham Barghouti and Ali Abunimah
Riham Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which is part of the BDS National Committee in Palestine. Riham is also a founding member of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel. Adalah-NY has been carrying out a successful boycott campaign against Israel settlement builder Lev Leviev since 2007. Riham lived in Palestine from 1995- 2005, during which time she worked at Birzeit University and earned her Masters in Gender, Law and Development. She also holds a Masters in Education and is currently a teacher in New York City.
Ali Abunimah, a writer and commentator on Middle East and Arab-American affairs, lives in Chicago. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Jordan Times, Lebanon’s Daily Star and Ha’aretz, among others.
He is a frequent guest on local, national and international radio and television programs. Abunimah lectures at colleges in the United States. He was born in the United States and grew up in Europe. Both of his parents are originally from Palestine. Abunimah travels often to the Middle East and is a full-time researcher in social policy at the University of Chicago.
Recent book contributions include “No Justice, No Peace,” in The Anti-Capitalism Reader, edited by Joel Schalit, New York: Akashic Books, 2002; “The US Media and the New Intifada” (with Hussein Ibish) in The New Intifada, edited by Roane Carey, New York: Verso Books, 2001; The Palestinian Right of Return (with Hussein Ibish), Washington, DC: ADC, 2001; “The Media’s Deadly Spin on Iraq” (with Rania Masri) in Iraq Under Siege, edited by Anthony Arnove, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002 (Updated Edition).
This event is put on by Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Toronto (SAIA-Toronto), a working group of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Toronto (OPIRG-Toronto).
Toronto IAW 2011 Endorsed by:
Barrio Nuevo
BASICS Free Community Newsletter
Canadian Arab Federation
Caribbean Studies Students’ Union (UofT)
Centre for Women and Trans People at UofT
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Educators for Peace and Justice
Environmental Justice Toronto
Equity Studies Students’ Union (UofT)
Faculty for Palestine
Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society (UofT)
Graduate Students’ Association (York University)
Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly
Health Studies Students’ Union (UofT)
Independent Jewish Voices (Toronto)
International Socialists – Toronto District
Labour for Palestine
Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network
Moyo Wa Africa
New Socialist Group
No One Is Illegal – Toronto
Not In Our Name: Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Ontario Public Interest Research Group – Toronto
Ontario Public Interest Research Group – York
Palestine House
Public Health Social Justice Committee
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
Ryerson Free Press
Salaam, Queer Muslim Communities
Science for Peace
Sikh Activist Network-York
Socialist Project
Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Teachers for Palestine
Toronto Free School
Toronto Haiti Action Committee
Toronto New Socialists
Graduate Students’ Union – Social Justice Committee (UofT)
Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance
University of Toronto Students’ Union
Upping The Anti
Venezuela We Are With You Coalition
Women and Gender Studies Students’ Union (UofT)
York University Free Press
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