Lecture: Partition and the Politics of Memory in Palestine/Israel
Divide the land. For almost a century, this has been the solution to the settler colonial conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In this talk, Nadim Khoury (Høgskolen i Innlandet) focuses on a specific and understudied dimension of partition: its effects on collective memory. Turning to the decade following the Oslo Accords (1993-2001), he examines how the ideology of partition informed the politics of memory of the Israeli left, the Palestinian Authority, and a host of NGOs.
Nadim Khoury is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Philosophy, and International Studies, where he teaches courses in the history of political thought and international relations. Prior to joining the department, he was an assistant professor in political science at Al-Quds Bard College (occupied Palestinian territories, US) and postdoctoral fellow at the department of philosophy at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. He holds a Ph.D. in political theory (University of Virginia, 2012) and an MA in philosophy (University Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille 3).
Nadim's research interests include transitional justice, nationalism, colonialism, and collective memory, with a focus on Palestine/Israel. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript entitled Partitioning Memory that critically examines the memory regime created by the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.