Fennell Lecture: Professor Sherene Seikaly - 'The matter of time: Race, catastrophe, and Palestine'

The next Fennell lecture traces Professor Sherene Seikaly's ancestor Naim Cotran through multiple subject positions from a white-adjacent colonial official in Omdurman, to a “backward” and “rootless” native in Palestine, to a dispossessed refugee in Lebanon. The piece offers lessons from Palestine on race, dispossession, and temporality.  

Free and open to all.

Professor Sherene Seikaly

Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book' Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine' (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores economy, territory, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book, 'From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine' tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB, co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series, co-editor of Jadaliyya, and Editor of Journal of Palestine Studies.

The Fennell Lectures

The Fennell Lectures and Fennell Forum are made possible due to the generosity of a member of the History alumnus, Simon Fennell. You can find out more about Simon and view recordings of some of these events at the link below.

Fennell Lectures