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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the intern
 ational order
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DESCRIPTION:Opening the #BISA2026 conference\, this lecture will attempt t
 o provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 20
 23 unsettled the international order. \nThe events there in that period e
 xposed the crisis of confidence in the non-western world towards the alleg
 edly universal institutions\, systems of justice and political guidelines
  established after the second world war. A crisis born out of the continue
 d exceptionalism in the Western engagement with crises in the global south
  in general and in Palestine in particular. This is a two fold deep fract
 ure that threatens civilisations all over the globe: the ever-growing gap
  between elites' agendas and concerns and that of their societies and the 
 return of what Eric Hobsbawm called "the Age of Extremes" that in its prev
 ious cycle began with the age of catastrophe (1914-1945). As an epicentre\
 , Gaza exposed this crisis\, but also holds a certain promise for moving t
 o a different age\, as had been done before after ages of extremes and cat
 astrophe\, to an age Pappe would call "the age of sobering wisdom" and one
  of its multiple epicentres would be Gaza and Palestine.\nSpeaker\nProfess
 or Ilan Pappe is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies
  at the University of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Ex
 eter's Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of t
 he board of the charity The Nakba Memorial Foundation. \nIlan Pappe was b
 orn in Haifa in 1954. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford 
 in 1984. From 1984 to 2006\, Pappe taught at the University of Haifa and
  moved to the UK in 2007 to the University of Exeter UK.\nPappe has writt
 en 26 books to date\, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007)
  and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky in 2010). His most recent b
 ooks are The Ten Myths of Israel (2018)\, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A H
 istory of the Israeli Occupation (2019)\, Our Vision for Liberation (with
  Ramzy Baroud 2022) and Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlanti
 c (2024). His latest book is Israel on the Brink (2025). \nThis public l
 ecture is organised in partnership with the University of Brighton's Centr
 e for Applied Philosophy\, Politics and Ethics. \nIf you are registered f
 or the BISA conference you need to also register separately for this event
  due to limited space. For this reason we also recommend anyone wishing to
  attend registers as soon as possible.\n\nhttps://indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/
 619/
LOCATION:The Brighton Centre
URL:https://indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/619/
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