Kontinuierliche Gegenwart: Zu Palästinensischer Arbeit, Land und Wirtschaft

Es handelt sich um ein zweitägiges Symposium über die politische Ökonomie Palästinas und den Wiederaufbau des Gazastreifens

5. Juli 2025
10.00-21.00

6. Juli 2025
10.00-21.00

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Kostenlos

für Kinder ab 14 Jahren und Erwachsene

auf Englisch

Amid 20 months of bombing and ongoing genocidal violence against Palestinians in Gaza, this two-day symposium seeks to critically engage with the political economy of Palestine and the violent imaginaries of some of the proposed reconstruction plans of Gaza.

Present Continuous explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and the genocidal logics of settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. The program will invite participants to reflect on the role of international actors—including Western states—in structuring both the historical and ongoing dynamics of the region through long-standing structures of exploitation, de-development of Palestinian industries and agricultural production, and militarization.

Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, Present Continuous offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures.

People of all backgrounds are warmly invited to join the symposium.

Aya Bendary

Day one: Saturday, 5 July 2025

10:00 am Opening Notes
by Mohammed Abdallah and Jule Ulbricht

10:30 am Imperial Continuum: Palestine and the Region
with Sherene Seikaly and Raja Khalidi, moderated by Lama El Khatib and Joud Al Tamimi

12:00 pm Lunch
Cooking in Gaza under Genocide A Resistance of Flame and Fragrance

with the Palestinian Cooking Club

2:00 – 4:30 pm Working Sessions
Colonial Continuities: British Mandate Policies and the Foundations of Resource Extraction in Palestine

by Global South United

Against/Through Reconstruction:
Conjuring Liberated Cities in Collective Imaginations

by Sanabel Abdel Rahman

Learning from and with the Palestinian Diaspora in Berlin: Labor, Power, and Organizing

by Academic Opposition

4:30 Break

5:00 pm Political Economy of the Reconstruction Plans and Notes Towards Palestinian Liberation
with Nora Ragab (Palestine Speaks), Kareem Rabie, Mandy Turner and Mezna Qato, moderated by Sobhi Samour

7:15 pm Unsettled Earth, Study Session with Joud Al Tamimi and Lama El Khatib, and others

9:00 pm Closing