Wednesday, 9 December | 09:30–16:00
Language: Arabic (simultaneous English translation)
Place: Zoom
Link: https://zoom.us/j/98832059979

The Palestinian Museum will hold its second annual conference, which complements its outgoing exhibition, Printed in Jerusalem: Mustamloun. Under the title Unsettling Jerusalem, the conference will examine the centrality of Jerusalem in the Palestinian political, cultural and social imaginaries.

Through this conference, the Palestinian Museum appends the research upon which its exhibitions, Jerusalem Lives (2017) and Printed in Jerusalem (2020), were built. In pondering the topics to be addressed, we found ourselves speaking of two Jerusalems or more. One lies here: Jerusalem as manifested in the individual and collective imaginaries. Another is more distant, walled off and sealed with military checkpoints, unattainable to Palestinians living in the diaspora, the West Bank, and Gaza.

The conference will address the following questions: How can we read Jerusalem in the collective Palestinian imaginary? How is the centrality of Jerusalem represented in the Palestinian cultural sphere? Is there unanimity with regards to one Jerusalem? Is there one Jerusalemite voice? How does resistance mesh with the acts of ordinary daily life in the city? Does Palestinian discourse reflect the reality of Jerusalem and its features?

Speakers include: Issam Nassar; Salim Abu Thaher; Maha al-Samman; Ahmad Asaad; Areej Sabbagh-Khoury; Ghassan Halayqa; Fayrouz Sharqawi; Abdel-Raouf Arnaout; Ali Muwasi; Yasser Qous; Camilio Boano; and Nahed Habiballah

For the programme, please click here.