List of previous lectures and recordings
Program
Wednesday, December 18, 2024, 7 pm Palestine time
Orly Noy, Journalist, political activist and Chair of B’Tselem
Title: The Israeli Society and the War: A Conversation with Orly Noy
[CANCELLED] Prof. Nadia Abu El-Haj (Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University)
Title: After Humanitarianism
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time
Prof. Neil Turok, Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh
Title: A Simple Cosmology
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time
Prof. Ivette Perfecto, ecologist and professor at the University of Michigan
Title: TBA
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time
Nathan Thrall, author and journalist, 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Title: TBA
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time
Prof. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
Title: TBA
Objectives
In concert with Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and in keeping with their joint commitment to full integration of Palestine in the global community of learning, the Bisan Lecture Series sponsors discourses on subjects of cultural, scientific, and societal importance by leading research experts and public intellectuals of varied heritage and viewpoint. The interactive webinars are free and open to the public, and recordings of each will be posted soon afterward.
Bisan Center for Research and Development
The Bisan Center is a non-governmental, nonprofit, democratic and progressive Civil Society Organization (CSO) that seeks to enhance Palestinian abilities and potentials for building an active civil and democratic community. The Bisan Center was established in 1989 and officially registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior in 2004.
The Bisan Center aligns itself with the poor and marginalized in Palestinian society, as it works to support their struggle in advancing their socioeconomic rights and builds partnerships with other progressive institutions. Among other activities, the Bisan Center regularly produces research reports centered on various problems of development, gender, youth, and social justice. These reports are published (in Arabic) in its annual journal Al-Taqadomi, which is peer-reviewed and focused on issues of development.
Steering Committee
