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Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019

Wednesday 6 November 2019
9:00 am 6:30 pm

The University of Melbourne Southbank, VIC, 3006 Australia (map)

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Black - Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019

Melbourne, VIC

It is our pleasure to bring you the forthcoming historic Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference: Contesting Settler Nationalisms at the University of Melbourne this November.

Speaking to the power of transnational solidarity, the conference is the second iteration of the eponymously entitled conference at Columbia University, held in 2018 for Qalandiya International. This iteration of the conference looks at the long-standing solidarity between Aboriginal and Palestinian peoples in the continent now known as Australia and across the globe in the struggle against settler colonial occupation.

The conference features panels and presentations from leading Aboriginal activists and artists as well as an impressive group of Palestinian Australian academics, including our celebrated keystones: Professor Gary Foley, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and The Karrabing Film Collective

Book your tickets now to secure your registration, receive the full conference program and hear about our community satellite events leading up to and around the conference! #BlackPalestinianSolidarity2019 #BPSConference2019

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Complimentary passes are available upon request. Please email blackpalestiniansolidarity19@gmail.com if you would like one.

Accessibility
* Brown Room at the University of Melbourne, where the main conference will take place, is wheelchair accessible.
*Bathrooms at Brown Room include an All Gender Wheelchair Accessible Toilet RH and a Female and a Male Ambulant Toilet.
*Stop 1 Melbourne University/Swanston St is a low floor tram stop. The stop services routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67 and 72.
*Disability parking: https://maps.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/30498/parking-spaces-map.pdf
*Please let us know if you require Auslan interpretation.

Everyone is welcome to attend this event, however racism, homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, sexism, ableism will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Anyone engaging in such behaviour will be asked to leave. Content note: This event will likely contain discussion of racism, sexual and colonial violence.

Sponsors and event partners
University of Melbourne, University of Technology Sydney, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria University, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, Readings, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Averroes Center of Arab Culture, Cultural Media, Palestinian Film Festival

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This conference is held and was mostly organized in and around the lands of the Wurundjeri people in the Eastern Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, and First Nation peoples everywhere, in their ongoing struggle against occupation. We pay respect to Indigenous Elders past and present everywhere.