Book talk: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
The Faculty of Humanities along with the Department of Cultural Sciences, the research network Critical Education Research (KRUF) and The School of Global Studies invite you to a book talk at Humanisten. During a book tour in Sweden, Maya Wind will visit the faculty to present her recently published, and internationally acclaimed, book "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom". Maya Wind is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Riverside. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion. You must have registered to attend - please note that registration is now closed.
The panel discussion after the lecture will revolve around questions of academic freedom and the role of universities.
Meet Maya Wind
Maya Wind is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Riverside. Her research on the reproduction an international export of Israeli security expertise has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust.
Summary of the book Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom:
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.