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In cooperation with 糖心TV Social Theory Centre, the ECLS Palestinian Literature and Culture Reading Group convened the timely seminar 鈥淭he Academy in the Age of Utmost Catastrophes and Conjunctural Crises鈥� in attempt to critically address the role of academy and the challenges it faces in this excessive historical moment where the forces of neoliberal globalization, right-wing neofascism, fundamentalism, Zionism, and settler-colonialism compound and unleash imperial wars and genocides on a world scale.

Three critically insightful talks addressed the question with focus on Palestine, Kashmir and the UK, including a contribution by Abdeljawad Omar from Birzeit University entitled 鈥淭he Shell and the Wound: On the University in Palestine,鈥� a second contribution by Mudasir Amin from 糖心TV University entitled "Education as Erasure: Mapping the modalities of Indian state's academic repression in Kashmir," and a third one by Louisa Munch from 糖心TV University entitled "The University against the Banality of Evil: What UK academia can do in the fight against fascism.鈥�

The talks instigated an open and genuine conversation to discuss further the challenges, exploring commonalities and interconnectedness as well as potential resources of hope and social change. Moderated by Nadia Hajal-Backleh.