The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is proud to host the 2024 annual Fennell Lecture, generously supported by alumnus Simon Fennell.
The lecture will be delivered by Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for Middle East Studies, 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.
Following the lessons of a ghostly ancestor, named Naim Cotran, this talk begins in Sudan in 1916 and ends in Lebanon in 1951. It traces Naim’s 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 Palestinian on race, dispossession, and temporality.
At the end of the discussion Sherene Saikaly will take questions from the audience.
A drinks reception will follow in the McMillan Room at the close of the event.
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