This is the first event for the "Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement" speaker series, hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by many units across campus. (If your unit is interested in sponsoring the series, please reach out to the Center for Racial Justice).
 

This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA. It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the "golden age" of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives, efforts and strategies of mobilization amongst Palestinian youth in shatat (Diaspora). By looking to the past through a historical continuum that has molded present-day Palestinian youth activism, I propose that new futures can only be made through methodologies that tether together time and space.