Spacing Palestine: Mapping and Speculative Infrastructures

This talk invites us to think about Palestine alongside both the real and conceptual confines of territoriality through contemporary examples of mapping, communication, and infrastructures. While keeping our attention on questions of space, land, and territorialization, the talk posits the possibilities and challenges of approaching, and overcoming, the Palestinian condition of fragmentation, distance, and disconnection.

The event is free and open to the public and will be held in Umrath Lounge in Umrath Hall on the Danforth campus of Washington University in St. Louis. A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the main program at 6:00 p.m.

About the Author: Dr. Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. She works on technology, media, culture, territory and politics in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Palestine. She is co-editor with Dina Matar of Gaza as Metaphor (Hurst 2016) and Producing Palestine (Bloomsbury 2024), and currently serves on the editorial boards of Social Text, Public Culture, and Journal of Environmental Media. She has published a wide range of articles and chapters on checkpoints, borders, infrastructure, media and telecom, and surveillance.

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