TOWERS OF IVORY AND STEEL | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Date and Time
Mar 20, 2024 6:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Mar 20, 2024 6:00 pm
14th & V
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel’s system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. TOWERS OF IVORY AND STEEL is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Maya Wind is joining us on the Busboys stage to share her timely and detailed research on how Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel’s systemic oppression against Palestinians. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Wind will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of TOWERS OF IVORY AND STEEL will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person and will not be livestreamed.
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Maya Wind is a scholar of Israeli expertise and militarism. She is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and doctoral graduate of Social and Cultural Analysis Department at NYU.
