Conferences

Conferences Organized:

  • Displacements: Borders, Mobility and Statelessness. Co-Organized with Daniel Coleman, Erin Goheen Glanville and Agnes Kramer-Hamstra. McMaster University. Sponsored by John Douglas Taylor Fund. 5-7 March 2008.

Conference Presentations:

  • “Anti-Palestinian Gendered and Racial Childism/Motherhoods in the Toronto Public School System.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference. 3 November 2023. In-person Delivery.

  • “Regional Re-imaginings in a Transnational Mode.” 43rd National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference. 27 October 2023.

  • “Palestinian Women, Interrupted: Colonial Dialogues in Anti-Occupation Solidarity Organizing.” Analyzing Histories of Struggle: Palestine, the Past, Present, and Future. Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference. 2 December 2021. Online Delivery.

  • “Diction Patterns and Feminist Solidarity in Palestine.” Settler Colonialism. American Anthropological Association 2018. 14-18 November 2018. San Jose, California.

  • “Carceral Feminisms and Racial Maternalism in Palestine.” Carceral Cultures Conference. Canadian Association of Cultural Studies. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, British Columbia. 1-4 March 2017.

  • “The Latest Frontier of ‘White Feminism’ and the Left: The Case of Academic Left, Feminist Orientalism.” Panel Subtheme: Organizing Resistance. Decolonizing Conference. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto. 3 November 2016.

  • “Orientalism and Critical Dialogues: Reflections from Palestinian and Israeli 'Anti-Occupation' Feminist Activists.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2016. Harvard University. 17-20 March 2016.

  • “Orientalist Feminism and the Peace Industry in Israel and Palestine.” Women's Worlds Conference 2011. Ottawa, Canada. 4 July 2011. Recorded by WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service.

  • “Eastward Pedagogies in Israeli-Palestinian Women's Dialogues.” Canadian Women's Studies Association. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Fredericton, New Brunswick. 29 May 2011. Presentation featured on "Experience Congress”.

  • “‘How do we Speak?' On the Marginalization of the Canadian Arab Federation.” (Dis)Arming Canada: Protest, Conflict and (Un)Steady States. Trent-Carlton Graduate Student Conference. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. 14 November 2009.

  • “Between the Boycott Campaign and Feminist Politics: Dilemmas in Palestinian Feminist Activism.” Displacements: Borders, Mobility and Statelessness. McMaster University. 8 March 2008.

  • “Identity Politics in Israel and Palestine: The Case of Transnational Feminism.” Middle Eastern Studies Association. MESA 2007 Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. 20 November 2007.

  • “Discourses of Feminism in an Age of Islamophobia.” Global Citizenship Conference. McMaster University. 3 March 2007.

  • “Israeli and Palestinian Childhood: John Locke’s Tabula Rasa theory and Children’s Testimonies of Terror.” The 27th Annual Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. 9 February 2006.