Students and academics attended a forum on Palestinian liberation, “Palestine: From Colonisation to Liberation”, as part of the SRC’s annual Radical Education week. The session was chaired by the USyd Ethnocultural Officer, who is also the convenor for USyd’s Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR).
The panel was comprised of three speakers: Ronit Lentin, an Israeli/Irish political sociologist and lifelong Palestine activist; Al-Shayma Nahya, a Palestinian Masters student pursuing a thesis in legal anthropology involving Palestinian refugees; and Jamal Nabulis, a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland researching emotion & resistance, graffiti & hip-hop in Palestine.
The chair opened the forum with an Acknowledgement of Country, noting the solidarity between Palestinians and the First Nations people in so-called Australia. They stated the importance of “decolonis[ing] the framework of expertise and academia.”
“Everyone is an expert, especially people with lived experience.”
Read the article by Andy Park in Honi Soit.