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Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison

Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Mai Masri, Lena Meari
Apr 5, 2012 | 6:00pm
Panel Discussion
1501 IAB
Columbia University
Co-Sponsors: The Center for Palestine Studies and The Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia; and generously co-sponsored by: The Barnard Center for Research on Women, The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, The Heyman Center, and The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

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This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention.

PANELISTS:
Judith Butler, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Angela Davis, Prison Activist and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Mai Masri, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Beirut, Lebanon
Lena Meari, Center for Palestine Studies Fellow, Columbia University

Registration is recommended on the Center for Palestine Studies website. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the event will begin promptly at 6PM. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.

This event is brought to you by the Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia and generously co-sponsored by: the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Heyman Center, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

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