CfP: 1st Annual PAS Graduate Student Conference "The Question of Palestine Now" 🗓️ Oct 9-10, 2026 📍 UC Berkeley 🔗 bit.ly/pasconference ⏳ June 19 @ 11:59 PT Graduate Students & postdoctoral fellows from all disciplines encouraged to apply Contact: pasprogram@berkeley.edu @makdisi.bsky.social

📢 Call for Submissions: 1) PAS Graduate Prize ($1,000, open to ALL UC System) 2) PAS Undergrad Prize ($500, open to all UC Berkeley undergraduates) 3) PAS Summer Research Grant ($2,500, open to all UC Berkeley grad students, junior faculty, & researchers) To apply, visit pas.berkeley.edu/resources

April 10 Webinar | "Israel's Death Penalty Law and the Struggle of Palestinian Political Prisoners" ft. @nimersultany.bsky.social & #SameraEsmeir moderated by @makdisi.bsky.social 🗓️: Friday, April 10, 2026 ⏰: 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern / 6PM GMT / 8PM Jerusalem 🔗: bit.ly/PASWEBINAR

Apr 06 | "The Struggle for 'Justice in Palestine' as Global Intellectual History from the Ottoman era to the Present" featuring Cemil Aydin! 🗓️ Mo 04/06/26 @ 5PM 📍 370 Dwinelle (Level F/G), UC Berkeley 🔗 forms.gle/doRsRvZKchop... 🔊 Open to public Cosponsored by Deptartments of History, MELC, & CMES

🚨Emergency Webinar | The War on Iran After the Gaza Genocide: A Regional Analysis🚨 🗓️ Monday, March 09, 2026 ⏰ 9AM PT 🔗 bit.ly/BerkeleyWebinar 📣 Open to the public Featuring contributions from Minoo Moallem, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Karim Makdisi, Maryam Al Kuwari, & moderated by @makdisi.bsky.social

THURSDAY | "Sumud Behind Bars: Palestinian Women and the Politics of Everyday Resistance" ft. Dr. Samah Saleh 🗓️ 03/05/26 ⏰ 2:30-4PM 📍 340 Stephens Hall, CMES UC Berkeley 🔗https://forms.gle/pfTuaJHZDZQcGxc98 This in-person and public event is cosponsored by CMES, GWS, and GenEq at UC Berkeley

MARCH 12 | "Our Oracle Ruin: Reading from Gaza's Book of Genocide" ft @sinanantoon.bsky.social & #HudaFakhreddine 🗓️03/12/26 ⏰5PM 📍Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UCB 🔗https://forms.gle/KprXtzQksPjeXNBq9 This #Rhetoric colloquium is cosponsored by Departments of English, Rhetoric, & PAS Program

02/10 | "Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, & the Syrian American Working Class" featuring Dr @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! 🗓️ Monday 02/10/26 ⏰ 5PM 📍 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F/G) 🔗 forms.gle/vrtuMSP2hHmac2… Cosponsors CMES & Department of History This in person event is free & open to public

02/02: Race & the Question of Palestine book talk with co-editor #LanaTatour in convo with #SameraEsmeir! 🗓️Monday 02/02/26 ⏰5PM 📍370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley 🔗https://forms.gle/y6oBn4ikVMpb2pDC6 📚Available for sale at event Cosponsors: History & GRC This in person event is free & open to public

1/23: "On the Necessity for Psychic Militancy" featuring Dr. #LaraSheehi (Research Fellow, ISHS, University of South Africa) 🗓️Friday, January 23, 2026 ⏱️1:30 PM 📍3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C), University of California Berkeley 🔗Register forms.gle/vc97dM4dwH8A... This event is free & open to public

Join us today for our final event of the semester as we host Tareq Baconi for a book discussion of “Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir” 🗓️: 11/19/15 ⏰: 5PM 📍: 3335 Dwinelle (Level C), UCB 📚: Copies available for purchase 🔗: forms.gle/9BhnFr3W8io5... Cosponsors: CMES and GWS

11/13: “From Apartheid to Democracy” book talk feat. Sarah Leah Whitson in convo with Prof Wadie Said! 🗓️ 11/13/25 ⏰ 4:00-5:30PM 📍 297 Simon Hall UC Berkeley Law School 🔗 events.berkeley.edu/pasprogram/e... Cosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Henderson Center, & Global Democracy Commons

NOV 04: “Framing Genocide: Western Media and Political Discourse in Gaza” presented by Dr. #AssalRad 🗓️ Tuesday, November 04, 2025 ⏰ 5:00 - 6:30 PM 📍 3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C), UC Berkeley 🔗 events.berkeley.edu/pasprogram/eve… Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Grateful to all those in attendance for our inaugural New Books in Palestinian Studies series featuring a discussion of “Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine & India at the Dawn of Decolonization” by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

10/27: Book launch discussion of "Parting Gifts of Empire" by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social! 🗓️ MON 10/27/25 ⏰ 5-6:30 PM 📍 3335 Dwinelle (Level C) UC Berkeley 📚 Copies will be available 4 purchase This free & inperson event is Cosponsored by: History, CMES, & ISAS UCB Register: forms.gle/cXjFsJ8Lcg1n...

Structural racism — or the way systems like housing, education, employment and justice create racial disparities without overtly racist actors — is a concept that is often “deeply misunderstood,” according to Stephen Menendian at @obi-belonging.bsky.social. news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/w...

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Structural racism — or the way systems like housing, education, employment and justice create racial disparities without overtly racist actors — is a concept that is often “deeply misunderstood,” acco...

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A full house at @palstudiesucb.bsky.social to hear Dr. Sherene Seikaly’s timely talk, “#Palestine is Here, Palestine is Everywhere.” We are grateful to our community members for braving the rain to attend this lecture!

10/13: "Palestine is Shrinking, Palestine is Everywhere" ft. Dr. Sherene Seikaly (UCSB)! 🗓️: Monday, October 13, 2025 ⏰: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM 📍: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C) UC Berkeley Event co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Register: forms.gle/MvbdJqEh9RA2...