A public conversation. Genocidal regimes in Israel, in the United Kingdom and elsewhere are employing abduction and detention without trial in open and shameless defiance of human rights. In multiple, extreme cases there are mass arrests, with vicious torture, and detainees are effectively ‘disappeared’. There has been evidence from returned remains of Palestinian detainees of body parts having been removed. At this event we will use testimonies both of former detainees as well as loved ones and family members to talk about the impacts of these practices.

Join us for an evening with renowned historian and cartography expert Thomas Suárez as he explores the history, importance, and power of geographic thought regarding Palestine and its people.

This illustrated talk traces the mapping of Palestine from the ancient Greeks and Romans through to the 21st century. Suárez will challenge modern presumptions of “personhood” in relation to the nation-state and examine how geographic thought shifted through the medieval period, the rise of Christian Zionism, and into the modern political era.