InQueery 2024
"No Pride in Genocide": Queer Politics in the Wake of Palestine
InQueery 2024 Symposium Overview
October 15, 2024
4:00-4:10 p.m. Welcome Remarks and Introduction
4:15-5:45 p.m. 3 Concurrent Panels/Breakout Rooms | View Breakout Room Details
5:45-6:00 p.m. Break (Zoom meeting ends; return to same meeting ID)
6:00-7:00 Keynote: Sa’ed Atshan, “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique”
Webinar ID: 930 7887 6206
Passcode: 722016
This year’s InQueery Symposium calls for work that considers the intersections that are at the heart of this slogan. “No Pride in Genocide” implicitly expresses queer solidarity with Palestinians, but it is also a provocation to consider the connections between queer, feminist, and anti-imperialist politics. The slogan performs a queer kind of refusal. It is a rejection of settler colonialism, occupation, and genocide on the one hand; but it is also a refusal of instrumentalization and a literal weaponization of queer identities in the service of empire’s brutal violence. As Palestinian and queer studies scholar (and InQueery keynote speaker this year) Sa’ed Atshan reminds us: “Queer liberation cannot be realized while colonial subjugation persists” (Queer Palestine, 222). Atshan’s work and the symposium in general aim to highlight the untenability of gay tunnel vision—at all times, but especially in this moment. No pride in genocide is another way of saying not in our name. This year’s symposium thus calls for work which reminds us that queerness—both as a theoretical analytic and political project— must contravene forever war. Queer and feminist projects of liberation can never be compatible with roadblocks, checkpoints, and the bombing of schools and hospitals.
2024 Keynote
Dr. Sa'ed Atshan (د. سائد عطشان)
Dr. Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College.
Atshan is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020). He is also the coauthor, with Katharina Galor (Judaic Studies, Brown University), of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020). The German translation of The Moral Triangle is entitled Israelis, Palästinenser und Deutsche in Berlin: Geschichten einer komplexen Beziehung (De Gruyter, 2021). Atshan and Galor also coedited the volume, Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022).
His forthcoming book, Paradoxes of Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories, is under contract with Stanford University Press in their Anthropology of Policy Series.
This annual event brings in guest speakers to create an intellectual space for intersectional and interdisciplinary conversations that center issues around gender, race, sexuality, and identity.
This event is hosted in partnership with the LGBTQ+ Center and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.