Today's Hours:
1. Host: The host will lead the discussion, ensuring that all attendees are heard and guiding the conversation back on track if it veers off-topic.
2. Time Management: Speakers should adhere to the allocated time for their remarks to ensure fairness and equal participation among speakers.
3. Respectful Event: Each speaker will present for 15 minutes, followed by questions. We invite you to write questions on cards or through the Q&A function on Zoom for remote attendees. The Q&A after each speaker will last for 5 minutes. After all presentations, there will be an additional 15-minute Q&A session.
4. Questions and Answers: In-person attendees will be required to submit questions on the provided cards. Attendees joining via Zoom can submit their questions to the host using the Q&A webinar feature. Selected questions will be read aloud for speakers to respond to, ensuring a fair and organized Q&A session.
5. Active Listening: Attendees should listen attentively to each speaker without interruption, allowing them to express their perspectives fully.
6. Civil Discourse: Disagreements must be submitted in writing using the cards provided or via the Q&A function on Zoom for remote attendees. This must be done in a civil manner, avoiding personal attacks or disrespectful language.
7. Fact-Based Discussion: Participants should rely on accurate information and evidence-based arguments.
8. Safe Space: The event space should be a safe and inclusive environment for all participants, free from harassment, discrimination, or intimidation.
For those that need parking to attend the event, please park at the Salem End or Maynard parking lots.
Thursday March 7, 2924, 4:30 pm to 6:00pm, Location: Heineman Ecumenical Center
Facilitator: Dr. Joseph Coelho, Associate Professor, Chair, Political Science Department
Speakers:
Dr. Noa Shaindlinger is an assistant professor at the Department of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. Her book, Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope was published by Edinburgh University Press in fall 2023. She is currently working on her second book project titled Experimental Occupation which focuses on Israel's first occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1956.
Learning Objectives: Displacement and colonial violence in Palestine: historical perspectives
Dr. Sam BiasiDr. Sam Biasi is a Visiting Lecturer at Framingham State University. They received their B.A. in Political Science from Clark University and their PhD in International Relations from Boston College. They are interested in civil wars, insurgency, and terrorism. Their research focuses geographically on the Middle East, and their dissertation was a study of Palestinian militant strategy between 1965 and 2005.
Learning objectives: Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel: roles, goals, and strategies
Dr. Reema Zeineldin Dr. Reema Zeineldin is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs in Framingham State University. She is a Palestinian immigrant, with a father from Gaza and a mother from Hebron who grew up in Gaza. She was a pharmaceutics faculty and a religious studies associated faculty. She lectures and speaks on topics related to Palestinians, Arabs, and Islam.
Learning Objectives: Palestinian lives within historical context
Tuesday April 16, 2024, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Location: Heineman Ecumenical Center
Facilitator: Dr. Susan Dargan, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Speakers:
Dr. Aviva Chomsky
Dr. Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She has published widely on labor history, immigration and undocumentedness, Central America, Cuba, and Colombia. She authored more than nine books and several anthologies and publications. Avi was one of the founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in the Occupied Territories at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s, where she was an editor of its newsletter. She was a creator of the country's first class on "Palestine". Her most recent publication is about "US veto of ceasefire resolution reflects its colonial view on whose lives matter."
Learning Objectives: Talking about Palestine, Israel, and antisemitism
Dr. Yasser Derwiche DjazaerlyDr. Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly received a joined Ph.D. in German Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities from Stanford University. He is a professor in the Humanities Department at Fitchburg State University, where he teaches languages (French, German, Arabic, Italian, and Spanish), a course on the history of the Middle East, and a humanities honors seminar about Western cultural history from 1750 to 1950. He has published in Arabic seven juried articles about the politics and the history of the Middle East.
Learning Objectives: The Gaza war at the crossroads of regional and international politics
Dr. Susan Massad
Dr. Susan Massad is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Health Studies at Framingham State. In 2013, she was awarded a six-week Fulbright Specialist Grant and spent it at School of Public Health, Al Quds University, in the West Bank, Palestine where she guest-lectured, assisted in curriculum development, and was a keynote speakers at The Palestinian Conference on Health Sciences: Towards promoting and developing a quality-health care, Faculty of Health Professions. Her talk was, “Obesity: Geographic distribution, and food policy.”
Learning Objectives: sabbatical experience in the West Bank