For Freedom and for Justice: The Role of International Solidarity
Speakers: Professor Jacqueline Rose, Dr Karma Nabulsi

Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street
Room: Goodman Library

Jacqueline Rose (FBA) is a Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. Her research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine. Her most recent publications are The Question of Zion, On Not Being Able to Sleep – psychoanalysis in the modern world and the novel Albertine

Karma Nabulsi is a Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and University Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. She was a PLO representative from 1977-90, working at the United Nations, in Beirut, Tunis, and the United Kingdom. She was an advisory member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks in Washington from 1991-1993. She was the specialist advisor to the UK all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry on Palestinian refugees (and its report, Right of Return, 2000) and the specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee's inquiry on development assistance and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law and writes on the philosophy and ethics of war, European political history and theory and Palestinian history and politics.