Israel and Hamas on the brink of all-out war within and beyond Gaza?

Seeing from a broader perspective, Michelle Pace (Roskilde University) and Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will share their views about how this warm-up of conflict might affect Israel's reproachment it was working on with other Arab states, the Palestinian issue itself, and a possible escalation into regional war (Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, etc.). Moderator: Shpend Kursani

• October 24 at 16:15-17:45 (UTC+3/EEST)
• Minutes from the seminar are available here

Michelle Pace is a Professor in Global Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Her research areas of interest include migration/refugee studies, liminality, ethnographic research, memory studies, emotions in IR, human rights, identity politics, perceptions of democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the development of the public sphere in the MENA region since the Arab “Uprisings,” de-democratisation, governance and pluralism in the Middle East, Egypt, Palestine.

Oren Yiftachel is one of the main critical geographers and social scientists working in Israel. Prof. Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography, urban planning and public policy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Yiftachel has worked on critical theories of space and power, minorities and public policy; 'ethnocratic' societies and land regimes; He is currently working on three main research projects: the spatial transformation of Israel/Palestine; the geography of ethnocratic power structures; and the various shades of the 'grey city' using a comparative international perspective.

More information: Kristel Vits, kristel.vits@ut.ee