Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, & Apartheid

On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and English, you and your students are invited to a talk by UC Riverside Distinguished Professor of English David Lloyd, titled: Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, & Apartheid.

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  He has published numerous articles on Palestine and Israel, including “Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Israel/Palestine” in The Journal of Settler Colonial Studies and, with Malini Johar Schueller, an essay on the rationale for the academic boycott of Israel in the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. Lloyd works primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. His most recent book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011).