International seminar. The solidarity turn: voices against genocide in Gaza
August 27 - 9:00 am - 1:00 PM Mexico
Thursdays from May to August (two sessions per month)
🕒9:00 hrs-Mexico City
12:00 hrs Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro
17:00 PM Madrid
Virtual mode
Seminar dedicated to the critical study of the situation in Palestine with colleagues from various Latin American, Arab and European latitudes.
coordinate
Moisés Garduño García, Mexico
Márgara Millán Moncayo, Mexico
Organized by
CLACSO Working Group on Geopolitics: Palestine and Our America
Jorge Alonso Chair (CIESAS-University of Guadalajara)
Seminar on Studies on Palestine (FCPYS-UNAM; Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of Madrid (CEARC).
💻 Register to [email protected] (from May 5 to 15, 2026)
SEMINAR PROGRAM
THE SOLIDARITY TURN: VOICES AGAINST GENOCIDE IN GAZA
| Session | Topics) | Speaker(s) | Dates |
| PART I. STORIES FROM THE PRESENT TIME | |||
| 1 | The logic of indigenous elimination in Palestine during the British Mandate | Endika Albizu, University of the Basque Country | Thursday, September 11, 25 |
| 2 | Zionism: A Colonial Political Theology | Rodrigo Karmy Bolton, Univ of Chile | Thursday, September 25, 25 |
| 3 | The Palestinian armed struggle: the case of Hamas | Moisés Garduño García, FCPyS UNAM | Thursday, October 02nd, 25 |
| 4 | The role of the UN and Palestine: From Resolution 181 to the ICJ case for genocide against Israel | Nadia Silhi Chanin, University of Edinburgh | Thursday, October 23, 25 |
| PART II. THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE | |||
| 5 | The construction of a Palestinian identity in Guadalajara: social movements, emotions and power | Arely Medina, University of Guadalajara | Thursday, October 30, 25 |
| 6 | The destruction of life in Gaza: Israeli colonialism in the 21st century | Ignacio Alvarez Ossorio, Complutense University of Madrid | Thursday, November 13, 25 |
| 7 | Cultural genocide in Palestine and artistic resistance | Danae Fonseca, Univ. of Barcelona | Thursday, November 27, 25 |
| 8 | Homonationalism as a strategy for democratic legitimacy in Israel: a narrative of Palestinian otherness | Indira Sánchez Bernal, Tecnológico de Monterrey | Thursday, December 4, 25 |
| 9 | The siege against the West Bank: the cases of Jenin and Nablus | Daniel Abundis, Tecnológico de Monterrey | Thursday, December 11, 25 |
| 10 | The ambivalence of Arab countries towards the Israeli occupation | David Hernandez, Complutense University of Madrid | Thursday, January 8, 26 |
| 11 | The (lack of) solidarity with Palestinian journalists. Ethical discussions from Mexico | Nofret Hernandez, CIDE | Thursday, January 22, 26 |
| 12 | The Palestinian press in the face of genocide: deconstructing hasbara and the attack on the free press | Loreley Hahn, SOAS-London | Thursday, February 05, 26 |
| 13 | Mental health in Palestine after the genocide in Gaza | Jeanette Sosa, Faculty of Psychology-UNAM | Thursday, February 19, 26 |
| 14 | The Sumud: Perseverance, Resilience and the Palestinian Cultural Struggle | Jorge Ramos Tolosa, University of Valencia | Thursday, March 05, 26 |
| 15 | Poetry from Palestine and resistance. Some exponents | Waleed Saleh. Autonomous University of Madrid | Thursday, March 12, 26 |
| PART III. GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION | |||
| 16 | The lasting consequences of Trump's "Deal of the Century" | Ayman Yousef, Arab-American University of Jenin | Thursday, March 19, 26 |
| 17 | The Abraham Accords as a tool for the annulment of the Palestinian people | Ignacio Gutierrez de Terán. Autonomous University of Madrid | Thursday, April 09, 26 |
| 18 | Palestinian political prisoners: interrupted leadership | Stephanie Latte, CNRS/CéSor EHESS | Thursday, April 23, 26 |
| 19 | The Trump administration, Western media, and support for Israel | Marcela Álvarez Pérez. BUAP | Thursday, April 30, 26 |
| 20 | The European Union and its Member States in the face of the Gaza genocide: Rhetoric, complicity, and irrelevance | Isaias Barreñada, Complutense University of Madrid | Thursday, May 07, 26 |
| 21 | Türkiye's role in the Gaza genocide | Carmen Rodriguez, Autonomous University of Madrid | Thursday, May 21, 26 |
| 22 | The genocide in Gaza and global militarism | María Elena Díaz de la Cruz, UNAM Postgraduate | Thursday, June 04, 26 |
| 23 | The role of Algeria and Egypt in Palestine | Isis Guerrero, Faculty of Philosophy, UNAM | Thursday, June 11, 26 |
| PART IV. GLOBAL SOLIDARITY AND THE REQUEST FOR HUMANITY | |||
| 24 | Some female perspectives on the Palestinian resistance | Marlene Hernandez Morán, UNAM Postgraduate | Thursday, June 18, 26 |
| 25 | The Global South and the genocide in Gaza | Valeria Rodriguez, University of Exeter | Thursday, July 02, 26 |
| 26 | Colonization, Statehood and Self-Determination | Sonia Boulos, Nebrija University | Thursday, July 09, 26 |
| 27 | Scholasticism in Palestine and the university encampments against genocide | Isaac Monterrosas. Postgraduate Studies UNAM | Thursday, July 16, 26 |
| 28 | The state of BDS, activism for Palestine in Latin America | Martin Martinelli, University of Luján | Thursday, July 30, 26 |
| 29 | Popular perceptions and actions of the Arab street regarding the genocide in Gaza | Cristina Cardeño, Tecnológico de Monterrey | Thursday, August 13, 26 |
| 30 | Critique of the two-state solution and the proposal of the civic state. | Juan David Echeverry, UNAM Postgraduate | Thursday, August 20, 26 |
| 31 | The shift towards solidarity. What next? Notes on the publishing project and other actions ahead | Moises Garduño García, FCPyS UNAM; Márgara Millán Moncayo, FCPyS UNAM | Thursday, August 27, 26 |
