Category: Events
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Stopping the Game, Rebooting FIFA and Ending Apartheid: The Politics of Football and the Question of Palestine
With the Irish men’s football team due to play Israel in a set of UEFA Nations League fixtures in the coming weeks, the Stop the Game campaign continues to highlight the responsibilities of the Irish government and the FAI not to play ball with a state engaged in apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people.…
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Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities
Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities, taking place on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm in the MUSSI Seminar Room and online. This event will bring together Maynooth researchers and international colleagues to reflect on the concept of ‘scholasticide’ and the nature and extent of the Israeli state’s perpetration of scholasticide against Palestinian scholars, students…
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Francesca Albanese – Trinity College, Dublin – Thursday March 20th, 2025
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – Francesca Albanese speaks at Trinity College, Dublin on Thursday March 20th, 2025 Introduced by David Landy and organised by Academics for Palestine.
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Racial Capitalism and Palestine Webinar
AfP Webinar 17 April 10am (Ireland), Racial Capitalism and Palestine JHLPS Special Issue Building on the seminal work by Cedric Robinson, this collection employs racial capitalism in theorising the Zionist colonisation of Palestine and to pinpoint Palestine as centrally relevant to the generation of global analyses of racial capitalism. Ronit Lentin, Sai Englert, Greg Burris…
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Academic Freedom in Context: Complicity, Legal Accountability and Ethical Responsibility
This webinar discusses the legal and ethical responsibilities of Irish universities to divest from Israeli apartheid and genocide and to end all complicity in Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people. The speakers will interrogate academic freedom and provide recommendations for Irish universities to ensure their full compliance with international law and human rights. Omar…
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Scholasticide talk
Dr Wesam Amer will deliver a talk on scholasticide on Thursday 06 February at 7pm in C104 (first floor Henry Grattan building), Dublin City University Glasnevin Campus. Dr Wesam Amer is a vsiting researcher at Cambridge University; former Fulbright scholar at Harvard University; former Marie Curie fellow at Newcastle University. In the Journal of Palestine Studies,…
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Symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine
The symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine will be held on Friday 07 February in the All Hallows campus of Dublin City University. All Hallows is on the Grace Park Rd, Drumcondra and the symposium will be in the John Hand room (SG05). Speakers: People are welcome to join any session—no registration required.…
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Gaza and EU complicity: talks in Maynooth, Dublin, Belfast and Cork
The European Elections in Context: EU Complicity in Genocide in Gaza This is a series of public talks by Niamh Ní Bhriain (Transnational Institute), hosted by Research in Ireland for Transformation (RIFT) and organised with AfP. See detailed description below. Monday 27th May, 4 to 6pm MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas Building, Maynooth University(organised with Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute) Tuesday 28th May, 6 to…
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TCD meeting: 76 Years of Nakba
REGISTRATION IS NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT, AND IT HAS A NEW VENUE Tuesday May 14, 6pm, Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, TCD On the eve of Nakba Day 2024, and now 76 years into the ongoing Nakba imposed by Israel against the Palestinian people, join us for an urgent and timely discussion with leading…
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Deluge: Gaza from crisis to cataclysm
Thurs 2 May, 6.30pm in TU Dublin, Aungier Street building Deluge is the first major collection on the current Gaza war, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner of Oxford University and published by OR Books. This event is a public conversation featuring Stern-Weiner; one of its contributors, Clare Daly MEP; and Harry Browne of Academics for Palestine.…
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Public Lecture at UCC: Ardi Imseis — ‘The United Nations and the Question of Palestine’
Prof Ardi Imseis, Queen’s University, Canada, speaks at 1pm on Friday 26th April in Aras na Laoi (Law School Building) ALG_30, University College Cork The UN has long-claimed that it is the standard-bearer of international law in the world. To what extent does this hold true when it comes to the UN’s management of the question of…
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Public Lecture at TCD: Ardi Imseis — ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’
Academics for Palestine and Irish Lawyers for Palestine, in association with Academia for Palestine TCD and the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict in Trinity College Dublin, are hosting this important public lecture by Ardi Imseis on ‘Palestine at the UN and the ICJ: Challenging Injustice’. In the context of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and…