The Palestine Lab

About the Cluster
The Palestine Lab at UCSC is a center for programming that is grounded in Palestinian studies, committed to affirming Palestinian life, and fosters community for graduate students and faculty working on Palestine. The Palestine Lab is to put into motion reading groups, writing workshops, and symposia on Palestine. The cluster especially aims to support junior scholars working on Palestine in a context when their work is subjected to surveillance, their research is suppressed, their organizing is repressed, and they experience coordinated attacks against their employment and publication records. The cluster takes inspiration from UCSC’s Black Geographies Lab, which seeks to “undertake rigorous, interdisciplinary, and transnational inquiry about the spatialities of Blackness, always oriented toward collective liberation for all beings.” This cluster fosters a community of scholarly inquiry that centers liberation and allows scholars to find each other, workshop each other’s work, and further each other’s writing against a backdrop that attempts to render this work impossible.

Co-Principal Investigators
Jennifer Kelly, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Jennifer Mogannam, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

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Banner Image: Photo by Ash Hayes of a mural in Nablus, the West Bank.