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Workshop: Research in and on War: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

International Workshop Organized by Chiara Calabrese, Atwa Jaber, and Falestin Naïli as part of the SNSF Consolidator project Futures Interrupted: social pluralism and political projects beyond coloniality and the nation-state

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Podcast: Futures Interrupted: Paths not taken in Palestine (1840–1948)

In a new episode of the podcast Futures Interrupted, hosted by Falestin Naïli, students report on political projects in Palestine between 1840 and 1948 that remained unimplemented after the end of the Ottoman Empire.

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Public Talk - Dr. Leyla Dakhli, historian, CNRS France „Revolts and Dignity: the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean from the 1970s until today“

Hosted and introduced by Falestin Naïli Seats are limited. Please register by email: falestin.naili@unibas.ch

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Rethinking the Politics of Palestine/Israel

BASHIR BASHIR (THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL)

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Dr. Burak Sayim’s Dissertation Co-Winner of the 2025 Walter Markov Prize

Dr. Burak Sayim has received the 2025 Walter Markov Prize at the 8th European Congress on World and Global History for his dissertation “Transnational Communist Networks in the Post-WWI Middle East: Anticolonialism, Internationalism and…

Between Empires and Borders: The Kurds in the Middle East

public lecture by Dr. Metin Atmaca (Social Sciences University, Ankara)

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Guest Talk by Ran Greenstein "Between Colonialism and Apartheid", 19, March

BETWEEN COLONIALISM & APARTHEID: SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA & ISRAEL/PALESTINE Prof. Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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06 May 2026 - 07 May 2026
Time: 08:00  - 18:00

Research in and on War: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

International Workshop Organized by Chiara Calabrese, Atwa Jaber, and Falestin Naïli as part of the SNSF Consolidator project Futures Interrupted: social pluralism and political projects beyond coloniality and the nation-state
18 Sep 2026 - 19 Sep 2026
Time: 13:30  - 14:30

Location: Maiengasse 51, Room 105

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Doctoral Workshop A Global History of Palestine

14th Annual SWANA Doctoral Workshop in Late and Post-Ottoman Studies in Basel 18 - 19 September 2026 with Prof. Dr. Sherene Seikaly

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