Palestinian History Between Past and Present Colloquium
Fri, Mar 6, 2026
3:00 PM–7:30 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Please register to attend.
Now in its second year, the “Palestinian History Between Past and Present” is a half-day colloquium curated by history doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center. Please join us for an afternoon panel of early career and public-facing historians of Palestine, followed by an evening keynote with Nasser Abourahme (Bowdoin College) and Nadia Abu El-Haj (Columbia University). Free and open to all. Please register to attend .
Program/Schedule
3:00-5:00 PM: Panel discussion withLaura al-Tibi (Columbia University), Thayer Hastings (American University), Shireen Akram-Boshar (University of Houston), and Jeremy Randall (CUNY Graduate Center)
5:30-7:30 PM: Keynote: Nasser Abourahme (Bowdoin College), the author of The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine in Conversation with Nadia Abu El-Haj
This event is free and open to the public. It is organized by PhD students in the History Department at the CUNY Graduate Center and cosponsored by the Center for Humanities, MEMEAC, DGSC, Center for the Study of the Holocaust/Genocide/Crimes Against Humanity, Black Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative, PhD programs in History, English, Urban Education, and Earth and Environmental Science, Hunter Arabic Program, and the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
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