Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Professor and Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London. She is a longtime anti-violence and feminist activist and the director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel. She is the author of Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Security Theology, Surveillance, and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones: Engaging Students for Transformative Change. She has published articles in several journals including British Journal of Criminology, Feminist Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Signs, Law & Society Review, and International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.

The talk should be of interest to faculty and students in postcolonial studies, gender studies, childhood studies, pschoanalysis, law, and Middle-East studies.

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