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Speaking Out of Place Podcast
By David Palumbo-Liu
On this episode of the Speaking Out of Place Podcast, David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, speaks with Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth about their upcoming documentary, The Palestine Exception.
People’s Conference for Palestine
KBOO: Old Mole Variety Hour
By Jan Haaken
In May, over 3000 activists attended the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan with thousands more joining virtually. Jan Haaken talks with Dr. Lara Sheehi, who attended the conference, about some of the strategic issues taken up by presenters and participants. They also discuss key dynamics behind students' identification with the Palestinian fight for liberation. Sheehi is assistant professor of psychology at Doha Institute in Qatar and is co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine.
KBOO: Old Mole Variety Hour
By Jan Haaken
Jan Haaken talks with Premilla Nadasen about her new book, Care: The Highest State of Capitalism. Premilla Nadasen is professor of history at Barnard College and Columbia University. In addition to discussing her book, Professor Nadasen offers an update on student organizing at Columbia and how Palestinian rights activists are responding to the administration's enlistment of the police and crack-downs on campus protests.
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom
KBOO: Old Mole Variety Hour
By Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth
On May 1st, the U.S. House passed legislation defining criticism of Israel or Zionism as antisemitic, affecting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. University leaders are being called to congressional hearings to address alleged campus antisemitism. Jan Haaken and Professor Jennifer Ruth discuss these hearings' McCarthyite dynamics, the Palestine Exception to academic freedom, and student and faculty responses.