Book Talk by Dr. Maya Wind
The departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology, the Queer Studies Minor, the Global Middle East Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor invite you and your students to a book talk by Dr. Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom on April 14, 2025, 3.30 – 4.45 pm at LA4 -120.
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. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful exposé of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
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. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful exposé of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
Maya Wind (PhD, New York University) is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Black Study and Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Wind’s work investigates the reproduction of settler societies and global systems of militarism and policing. Wind was previously a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Wind’s current book project investigates the reproduction and international export of Israeli security expertise. It reveals that scientific and social experimentation with Israeli citizens is foundational to global technologies and models of security. Research and writing for this project have been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust. Wind researches, writes, and teaches in collaboration with coalitions organizing for abolition, demilitarization, and decolonization.
Funding for this event comes from the Scholarly Intersections grant.
Sponsors: Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology, the Queer Studies Minor, the Global Middle East Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor
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